Deadline reports that The Big Sick star Kumail Nanjiani has signed on to star in an episode in Academy Award winner Jordan Peele’s upcoming reboot of the classic anthology series The Twilight Zone for CBS All Access. Nanjiani’s episode will be written by Alex Rubens (Key and Peele) while further plot details are currently being kept under wraps.
Jordan Peele, Simon Kinberg, and Marco Ramirez will serve as executive producers for the series and collaborate on the premiere episode.
Nanjiani is best known for his role in the romantic comedy film The Big Sick which he co-wrote with his wife Emily V. Gordon.
Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone series will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films.