Demetri Martin catches “Moneyball” role
Comedy Central star Demetri Martin has been cast opposite Brad Pitt in "Moneyball," a professional baseball drama that Steven Soderbergh is directing.
Steven Zaillian wrote the screenplay of the Columbia film, which adapts Michael Lewis' nonfiction book about Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, who assembled a contending ball club despite having a payroll much lower than that of other major-league teams.
Martin will play Paul DePodesta, a Harvard graduate who is into stats and probabilities and helps Beane (Pitt) develop his system.
A rising actor and comedian, Martin serves as star, writer, composer and executive producer of Comedy Central's "Important Things With Demetri Martin."
He has a role in Ang Lee's upcoming "Taking Woodstock," an ensemble drama starring Liev Schreiber, Emile Hirsch and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Source: Reuters