Hey folks, Harry here and this sounds great! I'd love to see Christopher Nolan take on Priest's THE PRESTIGE for adaptation. This is exactly what I'd hope for from a talent like Nolan to do next!
Hi Harry,
don't know if this is of any interest for your. I am the webmaster of ChristopherNolan.Net and I received an email from novelist Christopher Priest yesterday. He says that Chris Nolan's movie adaptation of his book "The Prestige" still seems to be fairly high in Nolan's priorities. The novel has been optioned to Newmarket for several years. Priest has seen an advance copy of Jonathan Nolan's screenplay, and says that "it is an extraordinary and brilliant script, a fascinating adaptation of my novel. Should the film be made, it seems likely it will be a return to the unusual and challenging material that made Memento so memorable."
The Prestige is a novel about two rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London:
In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.
Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magicians' craft can command--the highest misdirection and the darkest science.
Blood will be spilled, but it will not be enough. In the end, their legacy will pass on for generations...to descendants who must, for their sanity's sake, untangle the puzzle left to them.
Bye,
Johannes
