HALLOWEEN MAGIC
NEW GAME
October seems like the perfect opportunity to
share a few pieces of media that share magical
and bizarre roots.
The Magic of Skateboarding is a zine that explores
the shamanic roots of Magic and how they relate
to skateboarding. It also teaches practical magic
tricks with skateboards. Snag a copy at JoeL-
edoux.com.
Cryptic Creatures is an indie board game
designed by Eric Schoonover and Joe Ledoux,
within a partnership they’re calling Magic of
Play. The game is centered around mythical
creatures like sea serpents, the Yeti, and Bigfoot.
Hand-drawn art on the game board is part of its
magic. Ledoux thinks of a paintbrush like a wand
that manifests an image, and you can see the
spellbinding result that’s formed when an artist
and a magician join forces. Check out Cryptic
Creatures at TheGameCrafter.com.
PRODUCER
Siegfried & Roy’ Biopic
in the Works
The life story of magicians and
entertainers Siegfried and Roy is
coming to the big screen. German
multihyphenate Michael Bully Herbig,
one of Germany’s biggest stars and
most successful directors, is partnering
with UFA Fiction to direct two feature
film projects, including a biopic about
the German-American entertainers,
whose Las Vegas act with big cats made
them world-famous.
Herbig most recently directed the 2018
real-life hit drama “Balloon,” about
two East German families who tried to
escape to West Germany in a hot-air
balloon in 1979. The critically acclaimed
film earned about $8 million at the
German box office for Studiocanal last
fall.
Long in development at UFA originally
as a TV production, the big-screen
“Siegfried & Roy” will tell the story of
Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Uwe
Horn, who met on a cruise ship in 1960
and, driven by their common passion
for the art of magic and illusion, went
on to developed their famous act.
They achieved their international
breakthrough in 1966 with at a benefit
show in Monte Carlo.
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