According to shocktillyoudrop.com and numerous other horror sites, J. Michael Straczynski's Voices from the Dead has been optioned by DreamWorks. The film is based on the friendship between magician Harry Houdini (for whom Lovecraft ghost-wrote Imprisoned with the Pharaohs) and Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who were actually friends, but the storyline is a fictional account of how they teamed up with a psychic to solve bizarre murders in 1920's New York...
The film might be just what is needed to rescue the long rumored adaptation of Thomas Wheeler's The Arcanum (featuring Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, Marie Laveau and H.P. Lovecraft) from development hell. The last I heard, that film was being set up at Gold Circle Films with Randall Wallace at the helm...
The film might be just what is needed to rescue the long rumored adaptation of Thomas Wheeler's The Arcanum (featuring Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, Marie Laveau and H.P. Lovecraft) from development hell. The last I heard, that film was being set up at Gold Circle Films with Randall Wallace at the helm...
Update: Arrow In The Head is reporting that the SyFy channel is developing a series based on the graphic novel Among the Spirits by writers Steve Valentine and Paul Chart (which was inspired by Houdini's book A Magician Among the Spirits), that sees Houdini and Doyle solving mysteries in 1920's. Click here for more...
(Thanks to shocktillyoudrop.com, bloody-disgusting.com and Arrow In The Head)
(Thanks to shocktillyoudrop.com, bloody-disgusting.com and Arrow In The Head)
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