Tobey Maguire joins ‘The Crusaders’

Finally Mr. Maguire is back with a new film! He had this hilarious cameo role in Tropic Thunder, but I started to wonder why we have not seen him lately. There are talks about him maybe coming back to do another Spidey film but this project should do for now.

Tobey Maguire is attached to star in The Crusaders, a drama about the landmark 1954 Brown v. Brown of Education case.

Variety says Gary Ross is attached to direct, and Universal has hired “Recount” writer 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 executive producers through Ross’s Universal-based Larger Than Life Productions.