Brian Selznick's THE HOUDINI BOX Optioned for a Film
The movie rights to Brian Selznick's young adult novel The Houdini Box have been acquired by Chernin Entertainment. For those of you not familiar with Selznick's work, he also wrote the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which Martin Scorsese wonderfully adapted for the big screen last year. The book was published in 1991, and the story "centers on a boy who's trying unsuccessfully to perform Houdini's magic tricks when he meets his idol at a train station and begs Houdini to explain himself, eliciting a promise from Houdini...
Published By: Geek Tyrant - Friday, 17 August, 2012


