Tobey Maguire takes on 'The Details'

Tobey Maguire will replace James McAvoy in indie film The Details, reports Variety.

The Spider-Man star joins Elizabeth Banks, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert, Laura Linney and Anna Friel in the cast of Jacob Estes's dark comedy.

The movie centres on a couple (Maguire and Banks) who find raccoons living in their back garden. Disagreements about how to tackle the problem set off an escalating chain of events that leads to murder by bow and arrow.

"Maguire's character is an everyman in the sense that he is composed of a morally ambiguous core," said writer/director Estes. "He has good intentions, but he makes a lot of self-destructive mistakes."

The Details begins production in Seattle next month.