A Steven Soderbergh project scrapped at the eleventh hour of pre-production and inherited by a high - pedigree team composed of Capote director Bennett Miller and scribes Steven Zaillian (
the lone holdover) and Aaron Sorkin, it's as much a reinvention of the discarded film — apparently pitched as a data - saturated docudrama — as it is an adaptation of Michael Lewis's best - selling non-fiction book of the same name.