Variety reports that director Marc Forster, who recently wrapped World War Z starring Brad Pitt, has attached himself to The War Magician , an adaptation of David Fisher's best-selling novel on the life of British magician Jasper Maskelyne. Lonetree Entertainment will produce the film.
The book is described as follows:
Jasper Maskelyne was a world famous magician and illusionist in the 1930s. When war broke out, he volunteered his services to the British Army and was sent to Eygpt where the desert war had just begun. He used his skills to save the vital port of Alexandria from German bombers and to 'hide' the Suez Canal from them. He invented all sorts of camouflage methods to make trucks look like tanks and vice versa. Working for military intelligence, he put on a stage...
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