The Illusionist is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 period drama written and directed by Neil Burger and starring Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, and Paul Giamatti. Based loosely on Steven Millhauser's story "Eisenheim the Illusionist", The Illusionist tells the story of Eisenheim (Norton), a magician in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna.
The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, opened the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival, and was distributed in limited release to theaters on August 18, 2006, eventually expanding nationwide on September 1.
The Illusionist is the second animated feature film by Sylvain Chomet, the director of The Triplets of Belleville, expected to be released in 2009. It is being made at his Edinburgh film studio, Django Films by an international group of animators. It is estimated to cost around £10 million and is being funded by Pathé Pictures.
The film will be based on an unproduced script that the French mime, director and actor Jacques Tati wrote in collaboration with famed screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière between Mon Oncle and Playtime. The script was passed to Chomet by Tati's daughter, Sophie Tatischeff, when Chomet was seeking permission to use a clip from Tati's 1949 film Jour de fête in Les Triplettes de Belleville. Tatischeff suggested an animated film as she did not want an actor to play her father.
The main character will be an animated version of Tati, who will be personally animated by Chomet. The plot revolves around a struggling illusionist who visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician. The film will be set in Scotland in the late 1950s.
The film will be based on an unproduced script by Jacques Tati, and will be starring an animated version of Tati himself.
A young boy falls in love with a girl that is way above his social standards along with the art of magic. Although the parents forbid them of seeing each other they cannot be split apart. Until one day they were found together and the boy was sent off. He became a magician and traveled the world. She fell in love with another man, the Crown Prince. The two got engaged but the boy, Eisenheim, finally meets back up with the girl and uses his powers to free her from the royal house in Vienna. Written by thecaseymac
Eisenheim is a magician in early 1900's Vienna, who falls in love with a woman well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to a Crown Prince, Eisenheim uses his powers to free her and undermine the stability of the royal house of Vienna. Written by Unit Publicist
A magician in turn-of-the-last-century Vienna falls in love with a woman well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to the crown prince, the magician uses his powers to free her and undermine the stability of the royal house of Vienna. Written by Anonymous
