Tobey Maguire to portray...

He chose the select group he wish to be social with. Chess players.
Anybody not privvy to this group he had no time for.

Bobby Fischer did not confirm with accepted social patterns
because he chose not to. Not because he could not.

He was certainly not socially slow when amongst chess players.

I think it's a bit of a myth that he couldn't be social with non-chess players. I think when a lot of you say that he wasn't social with non-players every single one of those non-players belong to the media. Maybe he wasn't to friendly to media types eh?

Exactly.

And who wrote all this crap about Fischer being anti-social. The media.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Exactly.

And who wrote all this crap about Fischer being anti-social. The media.

His Japanese wife said he had quite a few chess friends. And this was during the nutty last half of his life. Clearly people always liked creating the myth of the mysterious and socially disfunctional genius.

Don't like Tobey for the part not because I think he is a bad actor. I think he's pretty damn good actor but the chemistry just feels wrong. I'm sure with a solid director and good actors they will produce the sort of thing that often win Best Picture - think 'A Beautiful Mind'. But it would be nice if they did this really well and it wasn't just a well made and generic hollywood drama.

I'm amazed that Tobey actually plays chess. Maybe for once we won't see the board set up the wrong way!

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Exactly.

And who wrote all this crap about Fischer being anti-social. The media.

what's the chances of Bobby getting a fair deal in this one?

Originally posted by ketchuplover
Bobby Fischer in an upcoming movie titled Pawn Sacrifices

Take it to Culture Spanky.

A movie titled Bobby Fischer Goes to War is in development too. No further data available.

Originally posted by TSaffle
I have a very hard time seeing Tobey Maguire in this role. Maybe it can work but I doubt it.

His acting is going to have to carry the role because his height sure won't. Toby is around 5'8". Fischer was 6'2".

I guess they'll pull a Tom Cruise and make sure the rest of the cast doesn't exceed Toby's height?

or dress him in high heels throughout.

or sit him down in front of a chess board.

According to a poster in the Fischer discussion at chessgames Maguire is producing. Also you can find a link to the script there too.

Originally posted by ketchuplover
A movie titled Bobby Fischer Goes to War is in development too. No further data available.

I read a book called 'Bobby Fischer Goes to War'. It's probably based on that one. It's quite good too except for it's lack of chess games analysis. 😉

Originally posted by tomtom232
Opening up has nothing to do with being social. If you can only be socially normal with a select group then you are not socially normal.

social norms are different when you're a celebrity.

Yeah it's too bad they plan on ending the film with the world championship match it'd be interesting to see a tratment of Bobby's descent into madness afterwards.