Moyle agreed, and all of Maguire’s scenes were deleted from the final film. Maguire’s performance as Spider-Man earned him some glowing reviews. Maguire is attached to produce Afterburn, a science fiction movie based on the Red 4 comic book by Paul Ens and Scott Chitwood. in 2008, Maguire took on a cameo role in the action comedy film Tropic Thunder as a gay 18th century monk with his eye on Father O’Malley (Kirk Lazarus, the character played by Robert Downey, Jr. in 2009, he starred in the Jim Sheridan-directed Brothers as Sam Cahill, a prisoner of war who returns from Afghanistan to discover his wife has become romantically involved with his brother. He received a Golden Globe nomination for his dramatic performance in the film.
