EDWARD Norton talks about appearing in The Illusionist and some of the challenges involved in adapting the script from Steven Millhauser’s original short story.

He also discusses some of the film’s magic, its release just months after Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige and forthcoming projects including New York cop drama, Pride & Glory.

Q. What was the attraction of The Illusionist?
Edward Norton: Two friends of mine who wrote the film Rounders had produced Neil Burger’s first, very small indie film. He had come to them with this idea and they were producing it for him, so they brought it to me. Neil’s script at that time was extremely faithful to the short story [Eisenheim the Illusionist].

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