- HOUDINI's HUNGER GAMES
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| Gary Ross the Man on Fire! |
In development at Summit Entertainment for some time,
Houdini appears to have found a director in The Hunger Games' Gary Ross. The
Hollywood Reporter brings word that Ross is currently negotiating to bring the
story of the master magician to the big screen.
Based on the biography, "The Secret Life of Houdini:
The Making of America's First Superhero," by William Kalush and Larry
Sloman.
The comprehensive novel, published in 2006 by Atria Books,
became known for insinuating that Harry Houdini acted as a spy for Britain and
was asked to be an adviser to Czar Nicholas II's court in pre-revolutionary
Russia. The book also portrayed the master escape artist and magician as a
debunker of con artists who pretended to be spiritualists, leading to the
controversial theory that Houdini's death was caused by the spiritual movement
as payback.
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