Warner Bros. Options CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL

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Warner Bros. has optioned the rights to the novel Carter Beats The Devil, author Glen David Gold's fictionalized biography of early 1900s magician Charles Carter.

FilmSchoolRejects broke the news, and in their Print To Projector piece on the novel, they suggest Rian Johnson, who directed GT favorites Brick and The Brothers Bloom, would be a perfect fit to take the helm. That would be AMAZING if Johnson could tackle it, but considering the rights have been optioned before, we have to keep our excitement in check. 

We can only cross our fingers that Warner Bros. can get enough steam behind this property to bring it to the big-screen. With Warner Bros. being the top studio in many regards at the moment, we likely won't have to keep them crossed too long.

What directors and actors would you like to see make a feature version of CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL?

Hyperion Books description of the Book:

America in the 1920s was a nation obsessed with magic. Not just the kind performed in theaters and on stages across the country, but the magic of technology, science, and prosperity. Enter Charles Carter -- a.k.a. Carter the Great -- a young master performer whose skill as an illusionist exceeds even that of the great Houdini. Fueled by a passion for magic born of desperation and loneliness, Carter has become a legend in his own time.

Carter the Great's thrilling act involves outrageous stunts carried out on elaborate sets before the most demanding audiences. Night after night, in towns across the nation, he performs these masterful feats, bringing his unique brand of magic to those starved for wonder. But nothing in his career has prepared carter for his most outrageous stunt of all, which stars none other than President Warren G. Harding and which could end up costing Carter the reputation he has worked so hard to create.


Filled with historical references that evoke the excesses and exuberance of Roaring Twenties, pre-Depression America, Carter Beats the Devil is a complex and illuminating story of one man's journey through a magical -- and sometimes dangerous -- world, where illusion is everything.

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