Andres Muschietti to Direct ‘The Witch of Lime Street’ Harry Houdini Story

The Witch of Lime Street

Andres Muschietti (Mama) is attached to produce and direct the film adaptation of David Jaher’s The Witch of Lime Street: Seance, Seduction and Houdini in the Spirit World, with author Jaher penning the screenplay. STX Entertainment just picked up the motion picture rights to the book which is based on real events in the lives of magician Harry Houdini and psychic Margery Crandon. Andres Muschietti is developing the project and Barbara Muschietti is also involved as a producer.


“Quite a few producers and studios were pursuing rights to this book for very good reason,” said Oren Aviv, President and Chief Content Officer for the STX Entertainment Motion Picture Group. “This is a spellbinding and exciting true story that weaves a fantastic mystery and lots of intrigue with history involving some of the most renowned and iconic figures of the era. The timeless question: ‘is there life after death?’ is explored through a scientific quest to investigate and validate supernatural phenomena. Ultimately the film leads to an epic showdown and otherworldly confrontation as the world renowned occult master Harry Houdini takes on the world’s greatest psychic Margery Crandon.”

The Witch of Lime Street Plot:

Based on David Jaher’s book of the same name, The Witch of Lime Street will be a gripping supernatural film set in post war 1920s about Harry Houdini, the legendary magician and occult expert, and his escalating rivalry with Margery Crandon, a woman who was considered to be the only real medium in New York City. An era better known for its jazz and glamour than for its dark obsession with the occult, the loss of lives in World War 1 gave rise to an intense desire to communicate with the dead and spawned a rash of self-proclaimed psychics. Houdini made it his personal mission to debunk fake spiritualists as frauds and charlatans by revealing their tricks. But Houdini meets his match in an alluring high society flapper known to her many astonished followers as Margery, The Witch of Lime Street, pitting the brash illusionist against dark and dangerous forces of the underworld, with Margery his ultimate target.