David Bowie will join the Christopher Nolan-directed "The Prestige" for Touchstone Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures reports Variety. Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Michael Caine star in the story of two rival magicians constantly trying to one-up each other.

In 'Prestige' Bowie will play inventor and electrical wizard Nikola Tesla, who is approached by one of two competing magicians for help in pulling off the ultimate magic trick in 1878. The Tesla character is based on the real-life Serbian-American inventor who discovered the rotating magnetic field.

Aside from a "Zoolander" cameo, Bowie hasn't starred in a film since "Basquiat" in 1996. "Prestige" will begin production in January.

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