The actor is in negotiations to star as famed magician Harry Houdini in Lionsgate/Summit's The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero.
Dean Parisot (Red 2) is directing.
The story, which is said to be in the vein of Indiana Jones, recasts Houdini as not just a master escape artist but an investigator of the world of the occult.
Noah Oppenheim wrote the screenplay, which is based on William Kalush and Larry Sloman's book of the same name.
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