According to EW, a team of cinematic greats has signed on for Houdini:
But an impressive creative team has quietly assembled around the project, including playwright Aaron Sorkin, composer Danny Elfman, lyricist Glenn Slater, and director Jack O’Brien — and despite repeated delays, Elfman says work on Houdini is now well underway.
“I’ve written music on and off for two years already,” Elfman tells EW. “It’s such a different process [from my film scoring work]. For me, it’s taking forever. But other people say, ‘Oh, no, you’ve only been on that a couple of years, that’s nothing!’”
The project has the potential for greatness, but does it strike anyone else as a bit… expected? Harry Houdini’s life has been revisited several times in several formats. If we were talking about under-appreciated musical geniuses like Whodini, I’d perk up more. Jackman’s got the pipes for a mean rendition of “Haunted House of Rock.” In fact, why isn’t Aaron Sorkin writing snappy, Eisenbergian dialogue for Whodini in that Soul Train movie? Whatever happened to that?
Aaron Sorkin is Writing Hugh Jackman’s ‘Whodini’ Musical [EW]
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