10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg is in talks to direct The Secret Life of Houdini. Learn more about the Dan Trachtenberg Houdini movie.
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Johnny Depp is in talks to play Harry Houdini in The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero. Dean Parisot (Red 2) is directing.
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Dean Parisot has done a few big-screen directing gigs in the past two decades (Galaxy Quest being the fan favorite) but mostly worked in TV during that period. Now he's headed back to the big screen with the reins of Red 2 in hand. Summit may be happy with that sequel because the studio is reportedly giving Parisot…
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I think I like Joe Wright more when he's working in a tweaked genre mode. Wright's literary films (such as Atonement and Pride & Prejudice) are great, but it's Hanna that really stuck with me. And with his version of Anna Karenina finished, he might be edging back towards the unusual with The Secret Life of Houdini,…
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For a while there, it seemed all but certain that The Hunger Games helmer Gary Ross would return for the sequel, Catching Fire. But that, of course, didn't pan out, and with Francis Lawrence now firmly positioned in the director's chair for that film, Ross is weighing a few different options for his next move.…
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IGN has learned that Catch Me if You Can and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull screenwriter Jeff Nathanson might be writing a Houdini movie for Summit Entertainment. In March it was announced that that Summit had acquired the rights to William Kalush and Larry Sloman's biography The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's…
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