Wes Craven Writes Vegas Horror Show

From the SciFi Wire:
Filmmaker Wes Craven (Scream) told fans at WonderCon in San Francisco that he's writing Wes Craven's Magick Macabre, a Las Vegas stage show that will mix magic and horror. "It is a bloody magic show for an 1,800-seat theater in Las Vegas," Craven said in a panel at the comic-book convention over the weekend. "The producer of Riverdance [John McColgan], who bought [the rights to] ... a very bloody, scary magical magic show in Dublin [featuring] a young magician, ... hired me to write a story, which I did. And I'm very excited about it."

Craven, who was promoting his upcoming mutant horror movie The Hills Have Eyes, added that the Vegas show will feature production design by Mark Fisher, the Cirque du Soleil designer who also put together the Rolling Stones' Super Bowl halftime show and Pink Floyd's "Off the Wall" tour. "He brought in the guy [David Mendoza] who designed all of the illusions for Siegfried & Roy and put all of us into a room together, and we came up with [these] really terrific, scary, bloody, crazy ideas that we're going to do for a big show to play in Vegas to scare the pants off of everybody."

Craven offered no further details as to where or when the show might appear.

- The Monster