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‘Becoming Houdini’: Disney, Scott Sanders & Danny Strong Team Up For Big Screen Spy Thriller Based On Master Illusionist’s Exploits


Disney is on board for a high octane feature film take on the early life of master escape artist Harry Houdini, with all the intrigue you'd expect

EXCLUSIVE: Harry Houdini was well known for his disappearing acts, but now the master escape artist and illusionist is set to make a big screen appearance for Walt Disney Studios. At the height of his renowned both on stage and in the emerging world of cinema, Houdini died suddenly and under sketchy circumstances from peritonitis at the age of 52 on Halloween 1926. However, while one of the most famous people on the planet in the Jazz Age, the early years of the Hungarian-born Weisz’s life has long been clocked in some mystery.

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