
He even barely escaped being buried alive and almost suffered a breakdown because of the near-death experience. Houdini was best known as a master escape artist, and escaped everything from simple handcuffs to his infamous act of escaping a straight jacket while being hung upside down in a case of water. The film looks to focus on the almost “superhuman” personality that Houdini carried with him throughout all his iconic performances. The plot of the film is still under wraps, but the story will be set at the height of Houdini's fame in the early twentieth century, with a certain "Sherlock Holmes" tone to the story, according to Deadline. The screenplay for the project will be written by Neil Weidener and Gavin James, who are no strangers to working with Paramount, as they were just hired to write Jerry Bruckheimer’s Beyblade project. Deadline reports that the two are working on a biopic about legendary illusionist Harry Houdini. Movie Info While working as a Coney Island entertainer, Harry Houdini (Tony Curtis) meets and falls madly in love with Bess (Janet Leigh). Houdini (1953) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by George Marshall Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Produced by Music by Roy Webb Cinematography by Ernest Laszlo.


Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated films of 2023, and it looks like two of the producers on the action packed adventure, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian, have found their next project.
