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Evan Jones and Writer Nicholas Meyer Talk HOUDINI, Taking Poetic License with History, STAR TREK, Meyer's Thoughts on Abrams' TREK Films, and More
Now available on Blu-ray and DVD is Houdini, the History Channel mini-series about the epic life of legendary illusionist Harry Houdini, starring Adrien Brody as the man behind the magic, Kristen Connolly as his faithful wife Bess, and Evan Jones as the architect who helped build Houdini’s tricks, Jim Collins.
I recently joined a small group of reporters at The Magic Castle in Hollywood where we got to experience the Houdini Séance and sit down for a lengthy chat with Evan Jones and writer Nicholas Meyer, who adapted his father's Houdini biography - Houdini: A Mind in Chains — A Psychoanalytic Portrait – for the mini-series.They talked about taking creative liberties with history in order to tell the best story, the personal challenge Meyer faced in adapting his father's book, filming in Hungary, and more.And since Nicholas Meyer was in the room the conversation naturally steered toward Star Trek.Meyer revealed his thoug
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When Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Wallsby William Lindsay Gresham hit bookstores in 1959, it had been a remarkable 31 years since the last major Houdini biography. That last biography was Houdini His Life Storyby Harold Kellock, a book notorious for being "full of lies." With his new biography Gresham took a quantum leap forward, washing away many of the Kellock fictions and unearthing essential new information. Indeed, I consider this the first great Houdini biography, and one that all subsequent biographies owe the biggest debt. It's also still the one with the best title.
It's in Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Wallsthat Houdini's real birthplace and birthday is revealed for the first time. Gresham also dismisses as apocryphal almost all of the familiar boyhood tales (picking the lock on the pie cabinet, the locksmith apprenticeship); tells the true story of Harry and Bess's me
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Houdini (miniseries)
2014 television bio-drama miniseries
Houdini is a two-part, four-hour History Channelminiseries written by Nicholas Meyer and directed by Uli Edel. It premiered on September 1, 2014. The series stars Adrien Brody as Harry Houdini and features the life of the legendary illusionist and escape artist from poverty to worldwide fame.
Plot
The miniseries follows the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era. The drama will chronicle the life of a man who can defy death through his stunts, his visions and his mastery of illusion.
Cast
Production
Development
History first announced the development of a Houdini biopic miniseries with Adrien Brody attached to star on April 10, 2013.[2] The series was officially green-lit on August 19, 2013, with Kristen Connolly announced as Brody's co-star and Uli Edel as director.[1] The screenplay was to be penned by veteran author and filmmaker Nicholas Meyer, based on the 1976 boo
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