Development continues on Lonetree Entertainment's "The War Magician", an adaptation of author David Fisher's best-selling novel on the life of British magician Jasper Maskelyne, currently set up at Paramount with Tom Cruise attached to star :
"...'Jasper Maskelyne' was a world famous magician and illusionist in the 1930's. When war broke out, he volunteered his services to the British Army and was sent to Eygpt where the desert war had just begun. He used his skills to save the vital port of Alexandria from German bombers.
"Working for military intelligence, Maskelyne put on a stage show inside the Royal Palace in Cairo in order to locate an enemy spy's radio transmitter. On Malta he developed 'the world's first portable holes'.
"Maskelyne's war culminated in the brilliant deception plan that won the Battle of El Alamein: the creation of an entire dummy army in the middle of the desert..."
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