‘Siegfried & Roy’ Biopic in the Works From Director Michael Bully Herbig, Ufa Fiction

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.

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