Khaby Lame is about to debut in his first film: the Italian influencer of Senegalese origin who is also the most followed content creator on TikTok will play the part of a food delivery rider who is recruited as a CIA agent.
Variety has learned.
Khaby, who in December made the entertainment magazine's top 500 list of the media industry's most influential business leaders, will tour the world in the English-language action comedy whose working title is 00Khaby and is set in Italy , United States, Monte Carlo, Dubai and the French Riviera.
In the role of the delivery boy, the influencer will cross paths with a dissident scientist and then be recruited by the Stars and Stripes secret services as bait to put enemy armies on the wrong path.
"While escaping from arms dealers and stealing DNA samples, the clumsy secret agent also has to deal with his Chinese-Italian girlfriend and her boring little brother", we read in the synopsis of the film: "In the end though, thanks with a mixture of ingenuity, luck and unshakable optimism, he will be able to avert nothing less than World War III."
Lame has 162 million followers on TikTok.
Bringing it to the big screen will be producer Marco Belardi, heading to Los Angeles this week to "put together an international production", Variety has learned.
The screenplay is written by Nicola Guaglianone and Roberto Marchionni (alias Menotti), also authors of They Called Me Jeeg Robot.
Lame, according to Variety, would also be arriving in the USA: the future secret agent would be expected at the Grammys tomorrow evening and on February 11th at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas as part of a marketing campaign.
"Acting has always been my dream", the 23-year-old former worker who, after being fired in 2020, opened his very successful TikTok channel, told Variety: "But I don't want to improvise. That's why I want to immerse myself in studying of acting and English to do my best in this film."
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