The Infidel

The Infidel musical to open at Theatre Royal Stratford

The Infidel - The Musical, written by comedian David Baddiel will be staged at Theatre Royal Stratford East this October after members of the public secured its production by pledging more than £55,000.

The Infidel musical reaches £55,000 Kickstarter target

The musical version of Omid Djalili movie The Infidel has reached its target on Kickstarter and will now go into production.

David Baddiel in cash plea to stage The Infidel

Comedian David Baddiel is calling for public support to help turn his film about a British Muslim man who discovers his parents are Jewish into a musical.

David Baddiel: why I'm turning The Infidel into musical

As a Kickstarter campaign is launched to fund Infidel: The Musical, the comic and author explains why his cult comedy about Jews and Muslims was ripe for a stage makeover.

The Infidel to be given Bollywood remake

David Baddiel and Omid Djalili's film The Infidel has been snapped up by Bollywood for a remake in Hindi.

Video - David Baddiel: Blockbusters are hard to predict

David Baddiel, writer and co-producer of the independent film The Infidel, says commercial viability in the movie business is rarely straightforward or easy to predict.

A close-to-the-bone, identity-swap tale, The Infidel sees Omid Djalili as Mahmud, a settled, non-practising Muslim family man whose life flips over when he discovers that not only was he adopted, but that his birth parents were orthodox Jews. The Infidel starts wonderfully, introducing us to a cast of carefully constructed stereotypes and then just as carefully it undermines them. David Baddiel's script is sharp, wise and very funny, and never flinches from exposing the hypocrisy and power games that fuel religious intolerance. But the film struggles to maintain this high standard; what began as a smart, challenging exercise in boundary pushing becomes just another sentimental life lesson.

David Baddiel's comedy about a Muslim man (played by charismatic comic Omid Djalili) who discovers he is Jewish and embarks on a quest that leads him into an unlikely friendship with a Jewish taxi driver (Richard Schiff). With cameos from the likes of Matt Lucas, Tracy-Anne Oberman and David Schneider, it's mildly amusing fare.

NBC Developing TV Version of 'The Infidel'

NBC has put in development a comedy series based on the 2010 British comedy feature The Infidel, with British-Iranian actor-comedian Omid Djalili, who starred in the movie, attached to reprise his role in the series offshoot.

David Baddiel on South Park, The Infidel and blasphemy

David Baddiel talks about the controversy over South Park's depiction of Muhammad and why his film The Infidel avoided blasphemy.