Zwick Is Wrapped Up In Rapp

Ed Zwick will direct an adaptation of Vince Flynn's eleventh Mitch Rapp novel says Deadline.

American Assassin tells the beginings of 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.

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.

Zwick will write the adapted script.

Marshall Herskovitz. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Nick Wechsler will produce the flick