"It would be an hour-long series of drama during the Second World War, and it’s about a team of..."

“It would be an hour-long series of drama during the Second World War, and it’s about a team of various kinds of charlatans — stage magicians, a spirit medium, a con artist and so on — who are recruited by British intelligence to perpetrate deceptions against the Nazis.”



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Michael Chabon on an HBO show he and Ayelet Waldman are developing. (via mattfractionblog)

I would watch this. I don’t have HBO and I would buy HBO so I could watch this.

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I presume (while doing nothing to look into this) that they are referring to the largely apocryphal Magic Gang, and Jasper Maskelyn. I’d love to see the show.

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Have been thinking about how to turn the Magic Gang into a screenplay for five years now. Which is a reminder to think less and do more.

And also a reminder that great ideas are in the air, not in our minds.

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