PAWN SACRIFICE Featurette and Clip Witness the new PAWN SACRIFICE featurette and clip! The film, directed by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai), stars Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Sophie Nélisse, and Michael Stuhlbarg. PAWN SACRIFICE will be released in theaters on September 16. In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. Also starring Liev Schreiber and Peter Sarsgaard, 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.