First announced in 2009, the big-screen project is to be based on the 2006 book of the same name by William Kalush and Larry Sloman.
Now Deadline is reporting that the project is getting fresh blood in the form of young helmer Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) signing on to direct the adventure story featuring history’s most famous illusionist at its center.
Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and bestselling writer Larry Sloman team up to find the man behind the myth.
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.