Monday, July 21, 2008

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

Gary Ross is attached to direct, and "Recount" writer Danny Strong will 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.

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