With the success of THE MAZE RUNNER movies, and now the upcoming release of AMERICAN ASSASSIN, Dylan O’Brien is very quickly transcending his Teen Wolf image and becoming a bankable movie star. The new movie is based on Vince Flynn’s novel which follows “Mitch Rapp”, an expert in counter-terrorism who wants revenge for the death of his girlfriend. Michael Keaton plays Stan Hurley, who must train Rapp to face ultimate danger. Sanaa Lathan and Taylor Kitsch co-star, and the film is directed by Michael Cuesta, who helmed the criminally under-seen KILL THE MESSENGER. Check out the first trailer below and tell us your thoughts in the comments.
American Assassin, directed by Michael Cuesta (‘Kill the Messenger’) 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.
AMERICAN ASSASSIN opens September 15, 2017