Screen Adaptation
The New York Times bestseller, Consent to Kill, is the first Mitch Rapp film in a proposed series of films by CBS Films. Consent to Kill is scheduled to be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Nick Wechsler; the screenplay was written by Jonathan Lemkin. The studio's last few films have performed poorly causing them to delay the production of this film. Antoine Fuqua was originally attached to direct with several names being rumored to play Mitch Rapp, including Gerard Butler, Colin Farrell and Matthew Fox, but the studio announced some major changes in June 2011. One of these changes is that the first film in the series was initially based on an earlier novel. This was changed to basing it on a later novel, American Assassin, which explains how Rapp became a CIA agent. Another change is the leading man will consequently be younger to reflect Mitch Rapp at a younger age and still at the beginning of his covert career.
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