There are still some of the world’s most interesting people who have not yet been portrayed onscreen by Johnny Depp, but there could soon be one less. Depp may take on the role of Harry Houdini, the early-twentieth century escape artist in the biopic “The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero,” to be directed by Dean Parisot. The story, based on a 2008 biography by William Kalush and Larry Sloman, will add details on Houdini’s life as a spy to all the magic. [via In Style]

Best known for being a cinematic goddess, Sophia Loren has recently completed a slightly different though related project: writing a book about her life on screen. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: My Life as a Fairy Tale will be published by Atria Books in December and follow Loren’s life from growing up in WWII-torn Italy, illustrated by plenty of letters, drawings, and photographs from her long life in film. Views of her more private moments will be included too -- her roles as mother and grandmother will loom just as large. [via The New York Times]

Uruguayan soccer striker Luis Suarez, recently best known for biting an Italian player during this year’s World Cup, had an autobiography in the works during the fateful Italy-Uruguay game last week. My Autobiography: El Pistolero is due out on September 25 -- and word is he’ll go ahead with his planned book tour, an enterprise made easier by the fact that he’s been banned from playing his sport for the next four months for the unsavory incident. [via The Bookseller]

Damien Hirst will publish his first memoir in 2015. The artist, whose work ranges from formaldehyde-preserved cows to a gold-encased mammoth skeleton, will cowrite his life story with James Fox, the journalist who helped Keith Richards write his best-selling Life. The Hirst tale will be published by Penguin, “a very cool and creative publisher with a huge amount of energy and enthusiasm,” says Hirst, who won’t shy away from writing about his early petty-criminal life and his budding enfant terrible days as a London art student in the eighties. [via RTE Ten]