HOUDINI MOVIE DETAILS ESCAPE VEIL OF SECRECY

As we had previously reported,  Summit Entertainment has unlocked "The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero" by picking up feature-film rights to the biography written by William Kalush and Larry Sloman. Today, the Hollywod Reporter has released additional details indicating that  director/screenwriter Jeff Nathanson (who penned screenplays for the Rush Hour franchise and also worked on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) is adapting the biography for the big screen.  Kalush, a previous guest on our podcast, wrote the book with Sloman, and it was published in 2006 by Atria books. Several controversial theories were put forth in the book including a possible connection to British Intelligence Services and that his death may have been a murder orchestrated by the spiritualism movement which Houdini regularly debunked. Kalush spoke of these in detail in our interview with him in January of this year. " In a related story which we  reported first in November of last year, Hugh Jackman is also in the process of preparing for his role in a Broadway musical based on the life of the magician.