Tobey Maguire is Searching for Bobby Fischer

If you haven't ever seen it, watch the ABC News feature by Jeremy Schaap about (and featuring) the iconoclastic chess legend Bobby Fischer. It's a pretty convincing case that Fischer was out of his gourd by the end of his life. While Fischer's biggest successes occurred before the age of 30 or so, it's what happened after that period that remains so noteworthy. Fischer became isolated and reclusive, not playing competitive chess for nearly 20 years. He would be denied re-entry into the United States upon his return to chess, for playing a match against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia, which was verboten. So, in his last 15 years, Fischer bounced from country to country and began firing off a steady stream of anti-American and anti-Semitic comments, despite the fact that he was both American and Jewish. He also, um, publicly applauded the September 11th attacks. And now, Tobey Maguire will play him in a bio-pic. The great thing about Maguire in this role is, even though he's in his mid-30s now, he can still believably play much younger. That could probably go the other way, too, although not into Fischer's 60s. But you can delve into the early parts of the chess master's self-imposed isolation. Maguire will also produce the film, which has the working title Pawn Sacrifice. The early reports are that the movie will focus on the 1972 Spassky match, the chess version of Jesse Owens winning the Olympics in front of Hitler. That's a great backdrop, but is one match really the whole story? Especially when you have all that unfettered crazy waiting to be explored? Either way, it's a good role for Maguire, which could be great if they work it the right way.

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Interesting. I think Maguire is just the right to play Fischer in his bio-pic.

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