Rami Malek's "Amateur" Release Date Revealed

The release date for Egyptian-American Rami Malek's 20th Century thriller movie "Amateur" has been pushed back from Nov. 8, 2024, to April 11, 2025.  

Universal is planning to put an event film on Amateur‘s new weekend.

"Amateur" also stars Caitríona Balfe, Rachel Brosnahan, Laurence Fishburne, and more.

Based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell, it was adapted by Ken Nolan. British novelist and popular historian James Hawes is directing the movie from a script by Gary Spinelli. Hutch Parker and Dan Wilson are producing, with Malek executive producing.

"Amateur" follows a CIA cryptographer who, after his wife is tragically killed in a London terrorist attack, demands his bosses go after them. When it becomes clear they won’t act due to conflicting internal priorities, he blackmails the agency into training him and letting him go after them himself.

The movie has generated plenty of buzz during the fall festival season. Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. rights.

Malek was recently seen in the Christopher Nolan thriller "Oppenheimer".

The movie is based on the Pulitzer prize book: American Prometheus” and dramatizes the creation of the nuclear weapon It features Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist who was integral to the Manhattan Project and known as the father of the atomic bomb.