His last film was the underrated 2008 film Traitor and he helmed a couple of episodes of the much-loved Showtime series Homeland. Now, writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff is set to take on a film adaptation of the Vince Flynn novel American Assassin for CBS Films.
Below is a synopsis of the novel [Coming Soon]:
American Assassin tells the story of legendary CIA agent Mitch Rapp. Long before he began hunting terrorists, Rapp was a gifted college scholar/athlete. Then, tragedy struck and Rapp was recruited into the nation’s most elite covert operations program. After completing training designed to teach the kind of lethal skills necessary to target our most dangerous enemies, here and abroad, he is a man reborn with a mission of retribution.
Rapp is the star of Flynn’s bibliography, appearing in no less than 13 of the authors novels. American Assassin, as is apparent in the above synopsis, is an origin story of sorts for the Rapp character. In many ways, he’s similar to Lee Child’s Jack reacher character, now being portrayed by Tom Cruise in Christopher McQuarrie’s upcoming One Shot.
Ed Zwick had adapted the screenplay with Marshall Herskovitz , but has left the project for The Great Wall, potentially starring Henry Cavill. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Nick Wechsler are still set to produce the film. Another Flynn/Rapp novel, Consent to Kill, is also in the works at CBS Films. Antoine Fuqua was attached to direct a long while ago, but we haven’t heard much from the project since.
Who do you think would be a good fit to play a young Mitch Rapp? Have you read Vince Flynn before?