NEIL BURGER: USE YOUR ILLUSION

“THE ILLUSIONIST” OPENS IN THEATERS AUGUST 18TH! Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven Millhauser’s short story “Eisenheim the Illusionist,” the film was conjured up faster than Houdini escaping from a shackled chest. After securing story rights, Burger’s producers informed the filmmaker that he had six months to write a screenplay. While the short story was certainly cinematic, Burger felt that “it wasn’t quite a film…”