LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bringing American chess champion Bobby Fischer's story to the big screen posed a challenge for the filmmakers of "Pawn Sacrifice." How would they make a film about chess ...

The hardest type of guy for an actor to play is one without charisma. That’s the challenge faced by Tobey Maguire in Edward Zwick’s , which tells the story of Cold War–era chess champ and totally ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - There might have been something more nerve-wracking than being an opponent to world chess champion Bobby Fischer, and that was being the mercurial man's minder. "Pawn Sacrifice," a ...

To like this movie, you'll need to be someone who enjoys a good chess montage, or Tobey Maguire, or both. (Both would be ideal.) The story of prodigious, cantankerous chess champ Bobby Fischer feels ...

He's largely forgotten now, but in his day, chess champion Bobby Fischer was legendary. A whiz kid with minimal social skills but prodigious competitive talent, he was considered the Bob Dylan of the ...

Tobey Maguire is producing the film and may take on the role of Fischer. Oscar-nominated Dirty Pretty Things screenwriter Steven Knight has penned the movie and Fincher could make it after he ...

David Fincher is making his next move, on Columbia Pictures’ chess drama “Pawn Sacrifice.” The director is attached to the life story of American chess icon Bobby Fischer leading up to his historic ...

The actor plays Bobby Fischer in the biopic Pawn Sacrifice, which opens Sept. 25. The film chronicles the chess icon’s troubled rise to global fame at the height of ...