Here's an interesting movie rumor from Radar Magazine about Tobey Maguire that I hadn't heard anywhere else. Seems he actually got himself fired from the Spiderman sequel for a short time, and that the movie folks had decided to replace him with Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko): After banking a cool $12.5 million for Seabiscuit, Maguire was sufficiently sure of his star power to slap Columbia with a lengthy list of demands for the Spider-Man sequel. When the studio balked, Maguire threatened that a “bad back” might keep him from making the stunt-heavy film, got fired on the spot, and was replaced with the equally Peter Parker–y (and much cheaper) Jake Gyllenhaal. Luckily, Maguire had the spider sense to be dating Jen Meyer, whose father Ron—cofounder of CAA and president of Vivendi-Universal—swooped in and coaxed Columbia into rehiring Maguire.

UPDATE: Tomas happened to post about Donnie Darko today as well. Perhaps a little wormhole opened between us for a split second eh?

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