Variety is reporting that Sony is still game for making the baseball flick having hired Aaron Sorkin to cleanup an earlier version of the script by Steve Zaillian.

Brad Pitt hasn’t wavered and is still attached the adaptation of Michael Lewis’ nonfiction bestseller “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” but Steven Soderbergh will no longer helm the pic.

After Pascal canned the project because she was afraid the shooting script wasn’t commercial enough it was put into limited turnaround, but Sony has held on to it hoping Sorkin’s changes will make it more accessible to the average movie-goer.

The narrative focuses on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, who molded the club into a top contender despite a shoestring budget.

Steven Soderbergh will direct the film, which will be an adaptation of Michael Lewis’ best-selling book, and is out to set a new standard of realism in sports films.

He’s already halfway there as he already has the support of Major League Baseball which will allow him to use real game footage, and shoot at a variety of American League ballparks across the country.  He also plans to use real players to make up much of the cast.

In an inteview with MTV he explained, “Anybody who is not actively playing who was on the 2002 team has been approached,” he said. “We’ve got about 60 percent of them. We have [manager] Art Howe, we’ve got Rick Peterson, the pitching coach. We’ve got three-quarters of the scouts who were there. … The guys on the team we can’t get — we’re casting real people who can play and perform. We’ll have the real footage and then we’ll go to the close-up with our guy in it, and it should be seamless.”