Director Antoine Fuqua (Shooter, Training Day, Brooklyn’s Finest) is set to helm the studio’s adaptation of “Consent To Kill”, one of the 11 bestselling Vince Flynn novels that feature the CIA assassin/counter-terrorism agent Mitch Rapp.
CBS Films it choices down to three actors, with Gerard Butler, Colin Farrell and Matthew Fox to play the role of Mitch Rapp, who is a mix of Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer.
Farrell seems like the least likely to get the role because his draw at the box office hasn’t proved him a major star, but maybe this is the role he needs. Matthew Fox who is coming out of TV’s “Lost” needs something to prove that he can do other projects besides TV. Butler needs it the most out of all three of them to get him out of the rut of starring in crappy romantic comedies.
Consent To Kill is set to begins shooting this summer, so a decision will be made any day now.
For those who are not familiar with the Mitch Rapp series, the book synopsis for Consent To Kill :
CIA assassin Mitch Rapp battles a Saudi billionaire bent on revenge, an ex–East German Stasi spy and a deadly husband-and-wife team of assassins. There’s a $20-million contract out on Mitch’s head, and to add injury to insult, he hurts his leg during a morning run. After a knee operation and an even more serious mishap, Mitch is out of the hospital and hot on the trail of the evildoers. Besides terrorists and assassins, Mitch has to battle the new national director of intelligence, a craven, hypocritical, inside-the-Beltway operator.
