Kumail Nanjiani has been tapped to star as the lead in Any Person, Living or Dead from Legendary Entertainment.
The short story by Simon Rich will be adapted to the big screen by Rich himself. On board to direct is Jonathan Krisel.
According to Variety, the story follows a brilliant reclusive scientist who, using his homemade time machine, gathers a roundtable of the greatest minds in history to solve all of humanity’s problems. Unfortunately, his plan fails to take into account language barriers, ancient racism and the tendency of medieval men to commit murder. Instead of learning from these Great Men of History, our hero has no choice but to hunt them down and blast them to the past before they can ruin our future.
Follows his Oscar-nominated performance on The Big Sick, Nanjiani has been very much sought after. You can see him next in Sony’s Men in Black:
