The Prestige

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Bale, Jackman in talks for Nolan's 'Prestige'
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman are in negotiations to topline Touchstone Pictures' "The Prestige," which will serve as Christopher Nolan's next directorial outing.

Bale and Jackman will play rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London who battle each other for trade secrets. The rivalry is so intense that it turns them into murderers. The title refers to the residue left after a magician's successful trick.
 
The script is based on Christopher Priest's 1996 novel of the same name and was adapted by Nolan's brother, Jonathan. He wrote the short story on which Christopher's Nolan's breakout movie, "Memento," was based on.

The movie will shoot in January with a budget around the $40 million range.

Nolan is producing with Aaron Ryder and Emma Thomas. Newmarket's William Tyrer and Chris Ball are executive producing. The movie was developed at Newmarket.

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Nolan Talks Next
Batman filmmaker discusses sequel and new project.

Batman Begins helmer Christopher Nolan is making the rounds promoting the DVD release of his hit reinvention of the comic-based film franchise. We talked with Nolan on Tuesday about his current plans for the future of Batman and other upcoming projects.

Nolan says he intends to helm the next Batman movie, but was mum on the details. And it seems that fans will have to wait a bit for the next installment as Nolan confirmed that he'll be making another film first.

"I can't really talk about it other than to say that we are talking about doing a sequel right now," he says. "David [Goyer] and I have been talking about where we're taking the characters. ... We know what we're doing and we're pretty excited about it, but it's still very early. I'm actually making another film first that I'm just in preproduction on, so it's a bit of a ways off."

Although Nolan didn't toss us any Scarecrow casting possibilities, he did drop a couple of familiar names that are being eyed for his next project.

He says, "It's a film called The Prestige  - the Christopher Priest novel. We start shooting in January and we're talking to Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale about starring."  

Michael Caine has also been rumored to be up for a role in the project which was adapted for the screen by Nolan's younger brother Jonathan (Memento).  The novel centers on the rivalry of two young stage magicians in turn-of-the-century London.

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Bowie ponders 'Prestige' thriller

Rock star David Bowie is in talks to play inventor Nikola Tesla in "The Prestige," a thriller from "Batman Begins" director Christopher Nolan.

The cast also includes Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Michael Caine in a tale of rival magicians in early 20th century London. The Tesla character is based on the real-life Serbian-American who discovered the rotating magnetic field.

The script, on which Nolan is working, is based on Christopher Priest's 1996 novel and was adapted by Nolan's brother, Jonathan, who also wrote the short story on which Nolan's breakout movie, "Memento," was based.

The movie is scheduled to shoot in January with a budget in the $40 million range. Disney will distribute the film domestically, and Warner Bros. internationally.

Bowie's acting credits range from 1976's "The Man Who Fell to Earth" to 1983's "Mr Merry Christmas," 1966's "Basquiat" and, most recently, 2000's "Mr. Rice's Secret."

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'Prestige' role for Johansson at Touchstone
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Scarlett Johansson is in negotiations to star in Touchstone Pictures' "The Prestige," which is Christopher Nolan's next directorial outing.

In the movie, Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman play rival magicians in early 1900s London who battle each other for trade secrets. Johansson will play a magician's assistant named Olivia who is sent to spy on the competition.

Nolan's period project also has attracted Michael Caine and David Bowie.

The movie is scheduled to shoot in January with a budget in the $40 million range.

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jesus!!!  is she in EVERYTHING!??!  and to think just a few short years ago she was hardly even hot.

[killafilm]

jesus!!!  is she in EVERYTHING!??!  and to think just a few short years ago she was hardly even hot.

Them be fighting words.

[Gamblour.]

creeeeeepy...

[mogwai]

creeeeeepy...

yeah, i know, brace pants... what was she thinking?

[Pubrick]

and to think just a few short years ago she was hardly even hot.

i will fight you.

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[Pubrick]

yeah that was 1998, so i don't know why killafilm even posted that.

when u say "a few short years ago" you mean 2001 at the earliest, and that's Ghost World and The Man Who Wasn't There. hotness was born in that year.

[killafilm]

For fun I think.  Or possibly to give everyone (mainly Mod) an icky feeling.

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according to the new EW, The Prestige hits theatres Oct. 27

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according to the new EW, The Prestige hits theatres Oct. 27

I'm actually really excited about this movie... there's been a historical trend in which films about magic have been uniformly awful, but between this one and the one with Edward Norton in it, we should get at least one good magic movie this year.

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An early photo has finally surfaced from on the set of Christopher Nolan's The Prestige:

http://www.movie-infos.de/galerie_details.php?image_id=9779