Michael B. Jordan And Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Team Up For New Thriller
Creed and Aquaman stars Michael B. Jordan and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II are set to team up for a new dramatic thriller,I Helped Destroy People, a film that is being adapted from a 2021 New York Times piece involving an FBI agent who leaked classified documents.
The article told the story of idealistic FBI agent Terry Albury, the only Black agent at his bureau, who was tasked with infiltrating Muslim communities post-9/11. But after growing so disillusioned by the War on Terror, Albury began leaking classified documents to the press, exposing the agency's many violations of its rules on domestic terrorism (alleged racial and religious profiling of citizens). Albury was then apprehended and sent to prison for four years, convicted under the Espionage Act.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, the upcoming film will come from Amazon Studios and will see Abdul-Mateen II fill the role of Albury as well as produce through his company House Eleven10. Jordan and his Outlier Society partner Elizabeth Raposo will also serve as producers. Hand of God creator Ben Watkins is set to pen the script. The project is now in development at Amazon after the streamer picked up the article by Janet Reitman «in a competitive situation.»
In the article, Albury felt obligated to leak the articles after feeling that what he was a part of was not acceptable. “I did it because it got to a point where the reality of what I was a part of hit me in a way that just shattered my existence,” Albury told the New York Times. «There is this mythology surrounding the war on terrorism, and the F.B.I., that has given agents the power to ruin the lives of completely innocent people based solely on what part
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