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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.2054  Tuesday, 7 December 2004

From:           Richard Burt <rburt@english.ufl.edu>
Date:           Friday, 3 Dec 2004 09:40:05 -0500
Subject:        War Magician

Apparently, Peter Weir is making a film about Jasper Maskelyne, who drew
on the Birnam Wood sequence in Macbeth for the battle of El Alamein.

War Magician (2005)
  Regie
Peter Weir

Peter Buchman (screenplay)
Dave Fisher (book)

Genre: War

True story of how British stage magician Jasper Maskelyne helped defeat
Rommell and the Nazi war machine. He outfoxed the Desert Fox. Based on
David Fisher's 1983 book.

Status: Pre-production

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