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Rami Malek won an Oscar for portraying Queen icon Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. Now he's lining up another real-life role as a veritable entertainment industry legend.

Deadline reports that Malek will star in a limited series about Buster Keaton, the actor, comedian, and director who became one of the biggest stars of Hollywood's silent film era. The Batman director Matt Reeves is looking to lens the limited series, which will be based on James Curtis' book Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life, presuming the producers can secure the TV rights. It's being made by Warner Bros. Television, but no network or streamer is on board yet.

Keaton, whose career heyday came in the 1920s, was known as "The Great Stone Face" because of his ability to carry off seemingly perilous physical comedy with a trademark deadpan facial expression.

The currently untitled Buster Keaton series would be Malek's first live-action TV role since Mr. Robot ended in 2019. Malek won an Emmy for his performance in the psychological thriller series as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer with DID (dissociative identity disorder).

After Bohemian Rhapsody, we saw him as the villainous terrorist Lyutsifer Safin in Daniel Craig's final Bond film No Time to Die. And next up for Malek is Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's movie about the creation of the Atomic bomb, which opens in theaters on July 21.

You can watch the charismatic actor discussing his transformative performance as Freddie Mercury below.

Can you picture Rami Malek as Buster Keaton?