Sam Raimi To Helm ‘Magic’ For Lionsgate; William Goldman Original Starred Anthony Hopkins https://t.co/yc9zyPQgmy
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Sam Raimi is directing direct Magic, an adaptation of the William Goldman novel. The book was first adapted in 1978 in a film that Richard Attenborough directed and Anthony Hopkins starred in. Hopkins played a ventriloquist who finds himself controlled by a malicious dummy.