Posted on Wed, 24/02/2010 @ 13:12
by: Paul Martin
Gary Ross, the man behind Pleasantville and Seabiscuit, as well as one of the writers embroiled in the saga of the Spider-Man 4 that never was, is the man set to issue directorial diktats in the direction of Damon’s RFK, while the script is being penned by Steve Knight, the British screenwriter of Eastern Promises and co-creator of the Who Wants to be a Millionaire television quiz show. Knight has another big job on the slate at the moment too, with Columbia having engaged his services to adapt Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol for the big screen….The suggestion is that Knight’s sudden status as a studio go-to guy is down to his script for Pawn Sacrifice, which is another Columbia project, and indeed another fact-based project; this time about troubled chess champion Bobby Fischer, and in particular his 1972 World Chess Championship victory over Soviet Union incumbent Boris Spassky. Tobey Maguire is due to produce, and also apparently fancies the role of Fischer for himself.
Source: http://www.indiemoviesonline.com
I would watch it 🙂
God anything has Got to be better than that Fischer movie they put out last year…..that just hurt…I don’t think I even saw the whole thing..it was so pathetic.
Thanks anon i thought so, i felt repelled by the previews so i figured something was wrong. Of course Hollywood gunna do their thing. It will be interesting to see how Maguire does Fischer, i learned from Will Smith doing Ali not to underestimate people.
Did you read this text before you put it up on this child-oriented blog?
I hope the movie gets made. There is a good story to tell.