Deadline reports that Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail and Emmy-winning star Rami Malek are reteaming for Universal Pictures’ American Radical, based on the book American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent written by Tamer Elnoury and Kevin Maurer that Universal has optioned the rights for.
American Radical is currently in development and a writer is being sought for the project.
Esmail is set to direct and produce with Malek headlining the film.
Elnoury is a longtime undercover agent and active Muslin who joined the elite counter-terrorism unit after Sept. 11.