The miniseries tells the entire Harry Houdini tale, from his unsuccessful start as a carnival magician to global celebrity as an escape artist to his later years wrestling with the spiritualism movement. It's kind of weird."Īnd he is taking a calculated risk with "Houdini," which the History Channel will run for two nights starting Sept. "The projects will all have me in a pivotal role, whether directing, producing or being a protagonist in the film. "The goal is to develop the material that I crave that doesn't necessarily come to me," Brody said of his new company, Fable House. (Producers hope to introduce it at either the Cannes or Berlin film festival next year.) A few months ago, Brody formed his own production company, which has $50 million in funding from a Nigerian energy magnate, Kola Aluko, and an anonymous Chinese investor the company aims to make movies with significant box-office prospects, sometimes in partnership with studios. Brody has six independent films in various states of completion, including "The Septembers of Shiraz," a movie about an affluent, Jewish family caught in Iran's Islamic Revolution that has "awards run" written all over it. "I'd love to be doing movies with scope and scale, but as much as I do think studios appreciate me as an actor, they are not coming directly to me," he said, speaking from a nook at the Sunset Marquis Hotel here.
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