CBS Films and Lionsgate to release AMERICAN ASSASSIN
CBS Films and Lionsgate will release AMERICAN ASSASSIN in theaters September 15, 2017
Directed by Michael Cuesta
Screenplay by Stephen Schiff and Michael Finch and Edward Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz
Based on the American Assassin novel in the Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn
Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Nick Wechsler
Starring Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Shiva Negar, Scott Adkins and Taylor Kitsch
AMERICAN ASSASSIN follows the rise of Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien) a CIA black ops recruit under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton). The pair is then enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets. Together the three discover a pattern in the violence leading them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent (Shiva Negar) to stop a mysterious operative (Taylor Kitsch) intent on starting a World War in the Middle East.
WATCH THE TRAILER:
The trailer, to us looks pretty good. Standard action story-line stuff but better than most of the B tier action stuff we end up seeing these days. Hopefully they didn't just show all the good action bits in the trailer!
As fans of Michael Keaton it's amazing and unusual to see him doing some physical action stuff but we certainly welcome it and as fans of action cinema in general, Scott Adkins name in the cast list gives us some hope!
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