Tracking Board reports that Mark Ruffalo (Thor: Ragnarok, Spotlight) and Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick, Silicon Valley) are currently in negotiations to star in The True American.
The True American is based on The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, a nonfiction book by Anand Giridharadas published in 2014 by W.W. Norton & Company.
Set in Texas in the days following the September 11 attacks, The True American tells the story of Rais Bhuiyan, a Muslim immigrant and Bangladesh Air Force veteran who narrowly survived a killing spree that took the lives of two other immigrants.
Employed at a Dallas-area convenience store as he established himself in America, Bhuiyan worked to have his attacker, self-styled “Arab slayer” Mark Stroman, spared from execution.