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If all goes as planned, Tobey Maguire is set to star in The Crusaders, a drama about the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case.

Gary Ross is set to direct. Ross and Maguire teamed on Pleasantville and Seabiscuit.

Maguire will 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. The story is based on Greenberg’s memoirs “Crusaders in the Courts.”