Perdita
24-10-2011, 17:33
NBC is developing a television adaptation of 2010 film comedy The Infidel.
The British movie starred comedian Omid Djalili as a devout Muslim who discovers that he was adopted and his birth parents are Jewish.
Djalili is expected to reprise the title role, while the film's producers are also attached to the project, according to New York Magazine.
Bruce Almighty scribe Mark O'Keefe will write the pilot for the potential series, with Djalili also executive producing.
The British Iranian stand-up comic has previously worked with NBC on two occasions, appearing as a series regular on 2003 sitcom Whoopi and 2011 comedy The Paul Reiser Show.
He has also appeared in such films as 2000's Gladiator and last year's Sex and the City 2.
It is currently unclear if other cast members from the film version of The Infidel - such as The Good Wife's Archie Panjabi and The West Wing's Richard Schiff - will appear in the TV adaptation.
The film is very funny, hope the tv series will be too
The British movie starred comedian Omid Djalili as a devout Muslim who discovers that he was adopted and his birth parents are Jewish.
Djalili is expected to reprise the title role, while the film's producers are also attached to the project, according to New York Magazine.
Bruce Almighty scribe Mark O'Keefe will write the pilot for the potential series, with Djalili also executive producing.
The British Iranian stand-up comic has previously worked with NBC on two occasions, appearing as a series regular on 2003 sitcom Whoopi and 2011 comedy The Paul Reiser Show.
He has also appeared in such films as 2000's Gladiator and last year's Sex and the City 2.
It is currently unclear if other cast members from the film version of The Infidel - such as The Good Wife's Archie Panjabi and The West Wing's Richard Schiff - will appear in the TV adaptation.
The film is very funny, hope the tv series will be too