Kumail Nanjiani to Lead ANY PERSON, LIVING OR DEAD

Deadline reports that Kumail Nanjiani will play the lead in Any Person, Living or Dead, the film adaptation of Simon Rich's short story.

Rich will adapt the screenplay at Legendary and Jonathan Krisel is set to direct the film.

The story follows a brilliant reclusive scientist who, using his homemade time machine, gathers a roundtable of the greatest minds in history (Shakespeare, George Washington, Aristotle, etc.) 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.

Nanjiani, an Oscar-nominee for his work on the screenplay for The Big Sick, is also known for his time on Silicon Valley.

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