Okay, this sounds exciting! J. Michael Straczynski (the creator of Babylon 5 and screenwriter for Changeling) will be writing a picture for Dreamworks about Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
DreamWorks has purchased the original screenplay Voices From the Dead from Changeling writer J. Michael Straczynski. The thriller delves into the real-life relationship between magician Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle.
Houdini and Doyle, who was a leading Spiritualist at the time, met in 1920 and became friends for a while despite long-running arguments about the existence of the supernatural. Doyle included a chapter in his book The Edge of the Unknown that claimed that Houdini had psychic powers, while Houdini often used his acts to debunk fraudulent claims about the spirit world.
Straczynski's script creates a fictional account of the two teaming up with a psychic to solve a set of murders in 1920's New York.
The CAA-repped Straczynski also co-wrote the 2009 action thriller Ninja Assassin, and he has screenplays in development at Disney (Shattered Union), Warner Bros. (Forbidden Planet) and Marvel (Silver Surfer). In TV, he was a writer-producer for Babylon 5, Jeremiah and Murder, She Wrote, among others.
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5 comments:
Now that sounds interesting...
That is a great idea for a film. I like the contrast between the two men. I know lots about Houdini but didn't realize that Doyle and he were friends. You could do so much with Doyles detecting skills and Houdini's illusions. Why hadn't anyone really thought of it before. What a cool idea for a TV show. I can tell where my mind will be spending a lot of time today - imagining all the possibilities.
There was a movie made in the '90's called FAIRYTALE about the Cottingly Fairies. Houdini and Doyle had supporting roles in that because Conan Doyle was one of the celebrities taken in by the supposed fairy photos. In that film Doyle was played by Peter O-Toole and Houdini was played by Harvey Keitel.
I know of the fairytale photos because the early days of photography fascinates me and that is one of those key events in the history of photographic fakery.
That sounds like good casting. Is it any good?
The movie was pretty forgettable. Keitel and O'Toole were the best things about it.
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