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Quest, Fun With Dick and Jane and Red 2 director Dean Parisot is going to helm
the long waited Houdini film. This version of the famous escape artist will be
based on the book The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First
Superhero, by William Kalush and Larry Sloman and if you think that it is all
about magic and illusions then you would be wrong, because the book transforms
Houdini into some sort of Indiana Holmes or Sherlock Jones, meaning he “acted
as a spy for Britain, helped the Secret Service, and
The
Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero Synopsis:
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King. Escape Artist. International Superstar. Since his death eighty years ago,
Harry Houdini’s life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television.
Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and
bestselling writer Larry Sloman team up to find the man behind the myth.
Drawing from millions of pages of research, they describe in vivid detail the
passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats, his secret
life as a spy, and a pernicious plot to subvert his legacy.
The Secret Life of Houdini traces
the arc of the master magician’s life from desperate poverty to worldwide fame
— his legacy later threatened by a group of fanatical Spiritualists led by
esteemed British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Initiating the reader along the
way into the arcane world of professional magic, Kalush and Sloman decode a
life based on deception, providing an intimate and riveting portrayal of
Houdini, the man and the legend (Amazon).
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