Nachmanoff Takes Over American Assasin

Jeffrey Nachmanoff ("Traitor") will replace Ed Zwick as the director of "American Assassin" says Deadline.

Based on author Vince Flynn's eleventh Mitch Rapp novel that charts the beginings of CIA agent 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.

Zwick has dropped out over a schedule conflict with the Henry Cavill--starring film "The Great Wall

Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz wrote the most recent draft of the script.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Nick Wechsler are producing the film

CBS Films won the rights to the Rapp novels back in 2008 and originally planned to begin the series with an adaptation of "Consent to Kill" that Antoine Fuqua was to direct Gerard Butler, Colin Farrell and Matthew Fox were all on the list to potenialy play CIA agent Rapp.