Tobey Maguire to star in ‘Crusaders’
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Tobey Maguire is attached to Universal’s “The Crusaders,” a drama about the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case.
Gary Ross is attached to direct, and U has hired “Recount” scribe Danny Strong to write the script.
Maguire would play Jack Greenberg, who, as an idealistic lawyer fresh out of law school, joined with NAACP Legal Defense Fund head and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to win a Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in American schools illegal.
Bob Cooper is producing, and Ross and Maguire will be exec producers through Ross’s U-based Larger Than Life Prods.
Ross and Maguire teamed on “Pleasantville” and “Seabiscuit.”