CBS Films is looking to cast Thor star Chris Hemsworth in their big screen adaptation of the action novel American Assassin. They want him so bad that they offered him a cool $10 million! Hell, you'd take it, right?
The book was written by Vince Flynn, and it's the eleventh book in a series of espionage novels. The novel is a prequel to the other books that explain how tragedy transformed the main character Mitch Rapp from a college scholar and athlete into a ruthless hunter of terrorists for the CIA.
It was previously reported that Bruce Willis is also in talks to take on the role of a CIA operative mentor that takes Rapp under his wing. The film is set to be directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, who has directed episodes of Showtime’s Homeland, and also made the Don Cheadle political thriller Traitor. Seems like he's a solid choice for taking on a film project like this. Marshall Herskovitz (The Last Samurai) adapted the screenplay with Ed Zwick who was also attached to direct the film at one point.
Do you think Hemsworth is worth $10 million dollars to star in a movie?
Here's a description of the Novel:
"American Assassin" tells the story of legendary 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.