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Billy Ray in for 'Conjure Wife'


December 18, 2008 United Artists has attached "Breach" writer-director Billy Ray to adapt and direct a film version of the horror fantasy novel "Conjure Wife." The 1943 debut novel by fantasy and science fiction writer Fritz Leiber Jr., "Conjure" centers on a New England college professor who discovers that his good fortune is the result of his wife's secret, magical interference. The Lion will market and distribute in the U.S., and StudioCanal will distribute in Germany and the U.K. through Kinowelt and Optimum Releasing.

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