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On Feb 1, 10:34 am, Mike Murray wrote:
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 05:37:48 -0800 (PST), Taylor Kingston

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I can imagine few people harder to direct than Fischer. The most
temperamental diva would have been putty by comparison. He would have
been like Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) in the early scenes of
"Tootsie," only much more so. At least they won't have that problem if
this one goes to production.

John Turturro would be a natural as Fischer. Of course, getting
typecast as a tortured chess genius might be a career risk...

Good one! Turturro's a bit old now, though, to play the Fischer of
1972. A few off-the-top-of-my-head suggestions:

Fischer -- Nicholas Cage

**Yeah!

Spassky -- Johnny Depp, Kiefer Sutherland, or Stellan Skarsgård

**Keifer can be the bad boy-genius. Good one!

Max Euwe -- Frank Langella
Ed Edmonson -- Jack Nicholson

**ROFL! but not really...

Nikolai Krogius -- Danny DeVito

**ROFL!!!

Leonid Brezhnev -- Joss Ackland

**Evans? : I'd prefer Jack for this role. We also gotta get Henry Kissinger
and Nixon into this, plus a token woman. Maybe the Beverley Sisters?

Phil Innes