Tobey Maguire Takes It To 'The Limit'

Tobey Maguire will produce and star in The Limit, a new racing flick based on a new book by Michael Cannell. Maguire would presumably play Phil Hill, a Grand Prix driver competing with his friend Wolfgang von Trips for the 1961 Drivers Championship. The book will be released in the fall, but Maguire jumped on the project, anyway, and it's going to be set up at Sony and adapted by Anthony Peckham, who has quietly been one of the busiest writers in Hollywood lately. The Hollywood Reporter says he's been polishing Sherlock Holmes as well as writing or contributing to the screenplays for Eastwood's The Human Factor, the Hughes Brothers' The Book of Eli, and The Tourist, which will star George Clooney. There's no word on a director, as this is possibly not a front burner project for Maguire the movie star. It's likely that he'll work on Spider-Man 4 first, which should give Peckham time to adapt the book and let that script attract more stars and possible directors. The other option is that Maguire Entertainment and Sony rush to get this done and it somehow films before Spidey, which isn't due in theaters until summer 2011. Either way, I would expect a late 2010 arrival for The Limit in theaters. It'll be good to have a new Grand Prix movie, though. The John Frankenheimer movie, Grand Prix, has always been a genre favorite, and as driving movies go, it's still one of the better examples.