NEW YORK (AP) – For his next stunt, David Blaine says he’ll perform an “easy and fun” high-wire act in Manhattan on Halloween.
“Basically, it’s something that’s been done in the circuses, based on the old high-wire acts,” Blaine told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “It’s like family entertainment, this one.”
For his last stunt, in the fall of 2003, Blaine dangled in a plastic cubicle near the River Thames in London for 44 days with only small amounts of water for nourishment. He emerged 50 pounds lighter.
The New York magician expects this next stunt will be less demanding.
“It’s my easiest one,” he said, adding that the logistics aren’t completed. “I want it to be simplistic and reachable for everybody. I was even going to call this one `Easy and Fun.'”
Blaine, 32, said he recently reached a deal with ABC for four more shows, beginning with the Halloween stunt. His three previous ABC specials began airing on TLC Sunday. The programs include “David Blaine’s Vertigo,” when he stood on a small platform atop a 100-foot-high pillar for 35 hours in midtown Manhattan, and “David Blaine: Frozen in Time,” when he suspended himself inside a 6-ton block of ice for 62 hours in New York’s Times Square.