Script is being written by Neil Widener and Gavin James who are also working with the studio on Jerry Bruckheimer’s Beyblade project we revealed last week. Plot details are being kept under wraps on the untitled development project but we understand it will be set of its time in the early 20th Century and have a Sherlock Holmes tone, dealing as it does with a human superhero type. Its also worth noting that Houdini would be he first of 5 onscreen pairings for Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, they would go onto appear in Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis appeared together in The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), The Vikings (1958), The Perfect Furlough (1958), and Who Was That Lady? (1960).EXCLUSIVE: Transformers duo Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian are producing a movie about iconic escape artist and illusionist Harry Houdini for Paramount. Special features on the disc arent too minimal but you do get a photo gallery and what promises to be a great HD transfer. Based on the book by Harold Kellock, the screenplay is written by Philip Yordan (Brigham, Cry Wilderness) and is directed by George Marshall who also directed Duel In the Jungle, and The Blue Dahlia This biographical look at the life of Houdini takes several liberties with the facts, including how the magician died (spoiler- he didnt really die on stage) but its still a cracker of a film. The two quickly marry, and with her at his side, the magician begins his rise to fame as the world’s greatest escape artist and magician.īut as the escapes get more and more dangerous, Bess worries that Harry may be taking his act too far. While working as a Coney Island entertainer, Harry Houdini (played by Tony Curtis) meets and falls madly in love with Bess (played by Janet Leigh).

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