MUMBAI: Baseball film Moneyball, produced by Bennet Miller will close this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) on 30 October.

Based on the 2003 book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, the film starring Brad Pitt as Oakland Athletics’ general manager Billy Beane tells the true story of how Beane attempted to compete with richer teams by ignoring much of baseball’s conventional wisdom in analyzing players.

The film that was to have been directed by Steven Soderbergh, who was later replaced by Miller. Aaron Sorkin was also brought in to rework the script. Sorkin also wrote the script for The Social Network, TIFF’s opening film last year.

Moneyball, that also features Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright, will be released in Japan by Sony Pictures Entertainment on 11 November.

TIFF will have double opening films this year with Jackie Chan’s 1911 and The Three Musketeers will be screening at the TIFF on 22 October.