Rami Malek To Star In Mr. Robot Creator’s American Radical

Bohemian Rhapsodystar Rami Malek will play the Pb inAmerican Radical , an FBI thriller to be directed byMr . Robotcreator Sam Esmail . Malek has himself spent three season onMr . Robot , playing the reckoner hacker Elliot Alderson . USA internet has renew the acclaimed show for a quaternary go - around , with Malek set to return forMr . Robotseason 4 .

Having made a splash onMr . Robot , playing an anarchist hacker with multiple personalities , Malek is now poise to become a unfeigned motion-picture show star . There ’s already vast bombilation about his performanceas legendary rock superstar Freddie Mercuryin the upcoming biopicBohemian Rhapsody . Malek is alsoset to asterisk alongside Charlie Hunnamin a remake of the 1973 Steve McQueen - Dustin Hoffman prison break dramaPapillon .

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As reported byVariety , Malek ’s next big screen elbow grease will see him reunify with Esmail forAmerican Radical . Universal is develop the task based on the memoir of former FBI federal agent Tamer Elnoury , who joined the bureau ’s antagonistic - act of terrorism unit after 9/11 and used his undercover skills to penetrate a terror cell in the United States . Malek will produce together with Esmail and Chad Hamilton of Esmail Corp. , with Esmail himself taking on directorial duties .

In summation toMr . Robot , Esmail also directed the feature article filmCometstarring Justin Long and Emmy Rossum . Later this class , Amazonwill premier the director ’s new seriesHomecoming , a psychological thriller based on the fabricated podcast of the same name from writer Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg . The series star Julia Roberts , Stephan James and Bobby Cannavale has already get a two - season order from Amazon . Esmail has also reportedly lined up a TV miniseries adaptation of German managing director Fritz Lang ’s classic sci - fi filmMetropolis , as well as an ignoble Bermuda Triangle project .

WithAmerican Radical , Esmail continues to build up his eclectic CV of tv set and feature moving picture project . Mr. Robotis itself filled with lots of intrigue , but now Esmail will alternate the script and focus on a lead reference who appears to have pure and patriotic motives ( and presumably does not have a 2nd personality know inside his head , causing him to do dreaded things).American Radicalalso sounds like another challenging project for Malek , whose calling looks poise to really brag up once the Freddie Mercury movie hit screens . In increase to that , Malek also has a role forthcoming inThe Voyage of Dr. Dolittle , which asterisk Robert Downey Jr. as the nominal doctor who talks to animals .