Hayden Christensen and Djimon Hounsou will play in “Mandrake”
Hayden Christensen (Jumper, “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith”) and Dijmon Hounsou (Blood Diamond, Amistad) will play in “Mandrake”;, adapting comics signed by Lee Falk – “Mandrake the Magician”.
Mimi Leder (Deep Impact, The Peacemaker) will direct this film, which has a screenplay written by Josh Oppenheimer, Thomas Dean Donnelly, JV and Hart January Jeffers. The film is based on a story originally written by Kevin Bernhardt.
The film will tell the story of Jackson Mandrake, a character who lives life intensely. He is a magician by profession, who makes different kind of tricks, very dangerous.
After he was tied up and locked up in a trailer which is then thrown from a plane, he is recruited by the CIA to escape from a maximum security prison an undercover agent named Xi Shing Lung .
