Hayden Christensen and Djimon Hounsou have been cast in “Mandrake”, an adaptation of the comic strip created by Lee Faulk, best known as the creator of The Phantom. The film’s official plot synopsis reads; “Jackson Mandrake lives life on the edge. Working as an underground magician and escapologist, his act has grown increasingly dangerous. Following a daring escape from an SUV that has been dropped out of an plane at the Burning Man Festival, he is coerced by the CIA into breaking a deep-cover agent named Xi Shing Lung out of a maximum security jail. Hypnosis, contortion, distraction and technical wizardry all come into play as Mandrake breaks the agent…