Hot off Showtime’s record-breaking season finale of “Ray Donovan,” star Liev Schreiber has signed on to play Boris Spassky opposite Tobey Maguire’s Bobby Fischer in the chess drama “Pawn Sacrifice,” an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap.
Additionally, Peter Sarsgaard (left) is in negotiations for a key supporting role in the long-gestating movie.
Ed Zwick (“The Last Samurai”) is directing from a script by Steven Knight (“Eastern Promises”).
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Story finds Fischer (Maguire) preparing for an epic chess match with Russian champion Spassky (Schreiber). Sarsgaard will play a priest who Fischer confided in leading up to the match.