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Lionsgate is eyeing 10 Cloverfield Lane director Daniel Trachtenberg for its Harry Houdini biopic, which had been in development for several years.
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Johnny Depp doing Harry Houdini in Lionsgate’s Summit biopic based on William Kalush and Larry Sloman’s book The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero?
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Gary Ross, fresh off his wildly successful adaptation of The Hunger Games, is in negotiations to direct Houdini for Summit.
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Summit has hired Noah Oppenheim to pen its take on the master magician in an adaptation of The Secret Life of Houdini, The Making of America's First Superhero. Summit picked up feature-film rights to the biography by William Kalush and Larry Sloman in March 2009.
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"Harry Houdini acts as a spy for Britain and is asked to be an adviser to Czar Nicholas II's court in pre-revolutionary Russia. The master escape artist & magician also serves as a debunker of con artists who pretend to be spiritualists which leads to the controversial theory that his death is caused by the spiritual movement as payback."
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