Marvel star Kumail Nanjiani will appear in an upcoming murder mystery series at Netflix.
The Big Sick and Eternals actor will guest star in Murderville alongside protagonist Will Arnett. But there's a catch: Nanjiani won't be given the script of the episode and will have to rely solely on his improv skills.
Murderville stars Arnett as Senior Detective Terry Seattle, with the cast rounded up by Haneefah Wood as Chief Rhonda Jenkins-Seattle, Lilan Bowden as Medical Examiner Amber Kang, and Philip Smithey as Detective Darren 'Daz' Phillips.
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Like Nanjiani, all other guest stars will be kept in the dark about each episode's script until filming.
The celebrity guest star roster include Schitt's Creek protagonist Annie Murphy, talk show host Conan O'Brien, Community's Ken Jeong, former American footballer Marshawn Lynch, and Sharon Stone, recently seen in Ratched.
None of them has the faintest idea of what is going on and will have to solve the case with the help of Arnett's Seattle. However, it will be up to the guest star alone to reveal the killer's identity, with no assurance whatsoever that they will get it right.
The series is based on BBC Three's Murder in Successville and will consist of six episodes.
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Whatever Nanjiani will be up to in his episode, it won't be nearly as bad as what he considers being his worst movie fail: Stuber.
The action movie bomb was so bad that Nanjiani used it as the butt of a self-deprecating joke to encourage people to practice social distancing during the first lockdown in 2020.
After a writer on Twitter suggested cinemas announce they'd only be showing his Stuber to keep people away, Nanjiani proved he had some real sense of humour by writing: "Well, it worked the first time."
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