Disney fields 'Moneyball' author's 'Coach'

LewisDisney is rounding the bases with "Moneyball" author Michael Lewis, not only optioning feature rights to his "Coach: Training on the sport of Existence," but furthermore giving the most effective-selling scribe the chance to pen the script.Gil Netter, who teamed while using author round the Oscar-winning tale "The Blind Side," is creating through his Gil Netter Prods. banner, having a first-look deal with Disney. Based on Lewis' book of the title, "Coach" notifies the actual story of Lewis' journey to locate his influential baseball mentor, Coach Fitz, whose techniques stood a tremendous impact on his generation of sports sports athletes and leaders."You'll find teachers getting an uncommon capacity to go in children's mind," Lewis written of his former coach in the 2004 NY Occasions article. "It's as if amazing capability to obtain there whatsoever offers them the legal right to stay forever."Launched by W.W. Norton & Company in 2005, "Coach" marks one of several Lewis projects getting Hollywood treatment. The author's groundbreaking book "Moneyball: The ability of Winning an Unfair Game" was produced through the new the new sony Pictures and contains made over $100 million worldwide since September. The baseball drama about Concord A's GM Billy Beane is nommed for six Oscars, plus a Best Actor jerk for Kaira Pitt.Lewis also provides the financial tale "Liar's Poker" in development at Warner Bros. together with the program B-produced economic pic "The Big Short" inside the works at Vital. Presently a adding editor at Vanity Fair, Lewis has furthermore written for your NY Occasions Magazine, Bloomberg as well as the New Republic.He's repped by CAA. Contact Stuart Oldham at stuart.oldham@variety.com