From Coming Soon comes word that Hayden Christensen and Djimon Hounsou will star in Mandrake, an adaptation of Lee Falk’s comic strip “Mandrake the Magician”.
The film will follow Jackson Mandrake who works as an underground magician and escapologist. His act has grown increasingly dangerous until he is noticed by the CIA who coerces him into breaking a deep-cover agent named Xi Shing Lung out of a maximum security jail. However, he learns that he has been set up – Lung was a rogue agent who has formed a crime ring. Now he is targeted by the real CIA as well as Lung’s league.
Mimi Leder is set to direct the film penned by Josh Oppenheimer, Thomas Dean Connolly, JV Hart and Ian Jeffers.
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