Kumail Nanjiani is poised to write and star in a TV series based on My Beautiful Laundrette

Posted Wednesday 1/10/18 at 2:01PM EST

Variety

The 1985 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis about a British man of Pakistani descent and his white boyfriend who run a laundromat in London is set to be remade as a TV series, with Silicon Valley executive producer Alec Berg on board as well as Traffic writer Stephen Gaghan. So far, no network is attached.

TOPICS: Silicon Valley, Alec Berg, Kumail Nanjiani, Stephen Gaghan, My Beautiful Laundrette