Pleasantville director to rewrite Spider-Man 4

Posted on Jul 09, 2009 under Action, Sequels, Writers | 2 Comments

gary_ross Variety reports that Pleasantville director Gary Ross has been brought aboard by Sony to rewrite the Spider-Man 4 project. Columbia Pictures and Marvel hopes to put the film into production early next year.

Ross has had a wide ranging career, and this move comes from his growing relationship with Sony. He is also currently rewriting to direct a film about Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist who won seven Tour de France titles, and more. He also worked with the studio on Tokyo Suckerpunch, which is he expected to direct next.

Spider-Man 4 has been a long time coming, starting with James Vanderbilt and then rewritten by David Lindsay-Abaire.

Maguire Shoots for ‘Crusaders’

Posted on Jul 21, 2008 under Actors, Book-to-Movie, Drama, Movie News, Movies | 1 Comment

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.”