Insecure alum Y’lan Noel has been tapped as the lead, Dan Freeman, in The Spook Who Sat By The Door, FX’s drama pilot based on Sam Greenlee’s spy novel, which is executive produced by Lee Daniels.Written by Leigh Dana Jackson and to be directed by Gerard McMurray, The Spook Who Sat By The Door tells at the fictional story of Dan Freeman (Noel), who has just been hired as the only Black operative in the CIA.
He is a Patriot, a Vietnam vet, and secretly, a Black Revolutionary.The project reunites Noel snd McMurray after Noel headlined the 2018 Universal feature The First Purge, the prequel to the The Purge franchise, which McMurray directed.Greenlee’s book was first published in 1969 and was turned into a feature film in 1973, in which
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