Daniel Radcliffe To Play Undercover FBI Agent In ‘Imperium’
Daniel Radcliffeestablished his career battling pureblood supremacist Voldemort, and now he’s switching gears to fight some white supremacists. He’s set to lead the fact-based dramaImperium, about a young FBI agent tasked with infiltrating a neo-Nazi group to stop the construction of a dirty bomb. Read all about the Daniel RadcliffeImperiumcasting after the jump.Deadlinegot the scoop.Imperiumwill be the feature directing debut ofDaniel Ragussis, known for the short filmHaber. (Watch it here.) Ragussis also wrote the script withMichael German, the real-life agent on whomImperiumis based.Ty Walker,Dennis Lee, andSimon Taufiqueare producing.
German spent 16 years working with the FBI, much of them undercover among white supremacist militias in the U.S. Among other career highlights, he successfully foiled plans to attack a black church in Los Angeles in the 1990s. In 2004 he was blew the whistle on FBI mismanagement, and was consequently forced to resign. Much more about him and his career can be found inthis 2006 interview, if you’re curious.
Radcliffe hasn’t been seen much lately — his only role this year has been an extended cameo in (swipe to reveal, just in case you weren’t aware)Trainwreck(end swipe) — but that’s because he’s been busy filming. He has something like half a dozen projects due out in the next couple of years. First up is fall’sVictor Frankenstein, a retelling of the Mary Shelley classic. Radcliffe plays Igor, the faithful assistant to the good doctor (played by James McAvoy).
Beyond that, He’s already wrapped production onNow You See Me: The Second Actand the TV movieGame Changer. Additionally, he has two historical dramas in pre-production:Young RepublicansandBrooklyn Bridge. (His American accent should be getting quite a workout.) At present he’s shootingSwiss Army Manwith Paul Dano and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and he’ll jump over toImperiumthis fall.
