With Brooklyn’s Finest coming out in March, filmmaker Antoine Fuqua is prepping his next action-fused dramafest: an adaptation of Vince Flynn’s novel Consent to Kill, for the new film production division CBS Entertainment (Extraordinary Measures).
Slash Film has the plot of the book: CIA assassin Mitch Rapp battles a Saudi billionaire bent on revenge, an ex–East German Stasi spy and a deadly husband-and-wife team of assassins. There’s a $20-million contract out on Mitch’s head, and to add injury to insult, he hurts his leg during a morning run. After a knee operation and an even more serious mishap, Mitch is out of the hospital and hot on the trail of the evildoers. Besides terrorists and assassins, Mitch has to battle the new national director of intelligence, a craven, hypocritical, inside-the-Beltway operator.
Despite the novel’s arc, writer Jonathan Lemkin (Red Planet, Shooter) looks to be going in direction that’s not completely loyal, as the film’s details are being kept under wraps. Hopefully it does not involve a red planet. Or Tom Sizemore.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing (is there any studio film this guy doesn’t produce at some point?)
Are you excited for this spy thriller?