Bleeker Street has revealed the new trailer and poster for real-life chess drama Pawn Sacrifice, starring Tobey Maguire as legendary champion Bobby Fischer. You can check out the trailer and poster below!
Set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. Also starring Liev Schreiber as his Russian arch rival Boris Spassky, Pawn Sacrifice chronicles Fischer’s terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
The film co-stars Peter Sarsgaard (Blue Jasmine), Lily Rabe (“American Horror Story”), Robin Weigert (“Sons of Anarchy”) and Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man), and is directed by Edward Zwick (Legends of the Fall, Love & Other Drugs) from a screenplay by Steven Knight (Locke, “Peaky Blinders”).
Pawn Sacrifice opens in select theaters on September 18.
Pawn Sacrifice
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Pawn Sacrifice
