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Johnny Depp Circles The Secret Life of Houdini
Harry Houdini's life will be the focus of a new action-thriller in the same vein as the Indiana Jones movies.
Max Landis Will Rewrite Houdini for Sony Pictures
Scott Frank wrote the original script for the biopic. This new draft is telling the magician's life story with an H.P. Lovecraft influence.
Joe Wright Circles The Secret Life of Houdini
Noah Oppenheim wrote the screenplay based on a book that alleges the world famous illusionist was also a British spy.
Chernin Entertainment Developing The Houdini Box
Brian Selznick's young adult novel follows a boy that idolizes the world famous escape artist.
Carter Beats the Devil Lands Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller
The 21 Jump Street directors are taking on this adaptation about a magician who goes on the run after President Warren G. Harding is found dead.
Aaron Sorkin to Adapt the Steve Jobs Biopic for Sony Pictures
The Oscar winning writer of The Social Network will adapted Walter Isaacson's best selling biography.
Gary Ross Will Direct The Secret Life of Houdini
Noah Oppenheim is adapting this biography, which alleges the legendary magician also served as a British spy.
Francis Lawrence Eyeing Harry Houdini Biopic
The Water for Elephants director is in talks for Sony's long-gestating project about the legendary magician.
The Secret Life of Houdini Lands Writer Noah Oppenheim
Jeff Nathanson had previously been attached to adapt this biography of the magician, who also performed missions as a spy for Britain.
DreamWorks Acquires Voices from the Dead
J. Michael Straczynski's script features Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle teaming up to solve murders in the 1920s.