Tobey Maguire To Star In Post-Apocalyptic 'Z For Zachariah'

Well, here's a nice little reward for the rising director Craig Zobel. After coming to attention with his 2007 comedy "Great World Of Sound," the helmer made big waves this year with the unsettling thriller "Compliance." The film, essentially about a prank that goes to some very dark and twisted places, inspired impassioned responses from those who both loved and hated the film, and it seems that buzz has reached the ears of some pretty important folks. And as Zobel gears up a new film, he's got a pretty big name to help him make it happen.

Tobey Maguire will star in and produce the post-apocalyptic drama "Z For Zachariah" which Zobel will direct. Based on the novel by Robert C. O'Brien, and adapted by Nissar Modi (Gary Ross' developing "Outback" with Carey Mulligan still attached star and Maguire to produce) into a 2009 Black List script, the story follows a Midwestern teenager who survives a nuclear war and nerve gas thanks to the self-contained weather system in the valley that she lives in. Her world changes when two strangers arrive from the forest, and Maguire will play a scientist she cares after he falls ill from a contaminated stream.

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