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STX Entertainment is developing a film about Harry Houdini and his rival, psychic Margery Crandon.
The film is based on David Jaher’s book “The Witch of Lime Street: Seance, Seduction and Houdini in the Spirit World”.
Andres Muschietti will direct the mystery thriller from Jaher’s script.
“The Witch of Lime Street” will be a gripping supernatural film set in post war 1920s about Harry Houdini, the legendary magician and occult expert, and his escalating rivalry with Margery Crandon, a woman who was considered to be the only real medium in New York City. An era better known for its jazz and glamour than for its dark obsession with the occult, the loss of lives in World War 1 gave rise to an intense desire to communicate with the dead and spawned a rash of self-proclaimed psychics. Houdini made it his personal mission to debunk fake spiritualists as frauds and charlatans by revealing their tricks. But Houdini meets his match in an alluring high society flapper known to her many astonished followers as Margery, The Witch of Lime Street, pitting the brash illusionist against dark and dangerous forces of the underworld, with Margery his ultimate target.
