David Blaine reveals new stunts for Vegas show — and one doctors won’t let him do

Superstar magician David Blaine, naturally, does not have vacation photos like the rest of us.

Sitting at a table in his lower Manhattan magic lab — a secret lair on the edge of Chinatown where the 50-year-old develops his tricks and stunts — Blaine showed The Post footage from a trip to Southeast Asia

Video reveals him breaking bottles over his head, getting buried in scorpions and eating red hot coals. Then it cuts to Blaine making a move to kiss a king cobra: a snake with venom so deadly that a single bite could kill him in just 15 minutes.

“The venom is potent enough to kill an elephant,” Blaine told The Post.

“I worked with an expert [reptile handler] named Fiitz, in Indonesia, who keeps the snakes. He had one that had been rescued from a community where it was a nuisance. Another had killed a man,” Blaine told The Post.

“Kissing a king cobra’s head is the most dangerous stunt I’ve ever attempted. Get bit by a cobra and you will not be unscathed.”

Blaine was up for attempting many of the feats — but there was one he steered clear of: “I met a guy in India who pushed skewers and hooks through his torso. My doctor advised me against it.”

The project, which he described as “magical but not magic,” is in addition to a new live show, “IMpossible,” he will premiere at the Encore Theater in Wynn Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve weekend.

Directed by David Korins, who was creative director of the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” this one replaces Blaine’s previous gig at Resorts World in Vegas.

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