The show’s Muslim star was tired of being typecast as a terrorist, so he’s publicly pitching his own show to Netflix instead.
Two filmmakers, Ahmad Hussam & Nick Armero, have made it their mission to get Netflix to stream their original series Salahadin — a show that chronicles the life of the 12th century Muslim leader of the same name.
Salahadin's star, Ahmad Hussam, told BuzzFeed he originally created the project because he was tired of being typecast as a terrorist in every role he auditioned for.
"We want Netflix to hear this idea so they can produce the show with us. We want to make this a Netflix original," he said.
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They recently made a video "sneaking" into Netflix headquarters to pitch their show, which caught the attention of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
Hussam says the beginning of the video does, in fact, take place at the Netflix headquarters. After being kicked out of HQ they staged the rest of the video at their studios in Tampa.
Salahadin has raised over $80,000 on KickStarter, but Hussam tells us his goal is to get an in-person interview with Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos.
"We could have gone to Hulu or Amazon, but we really think Netflix is the perfect fit for our project," he says.
Courtesy of Ahmad Hussam
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