Chris Hemsworth Could Become An ‘American Assassin’

It seems that everyone wants a piece of Chris Hemsworth nowadays (that joke writes itself). The Avengers star is filming the sequel Thor: The Dark World right now – and appears in the Red Dawn remake next month – but CBS wants him to thereafter headline American Assassin, an adaptation of Vince Flynn’s ‘origins novel’ for CIA agent Mitch Rapp (sequentially, it is the eleventh Rapp book written by Flynn).

CBS has Bruce Willis lined up to portray Rapp’s CIA mentor in the film, with Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor) directing from a revised script draft written by Mike Finch (Predators). Insiders are saying the studio has broached Hemsworth with an offer of $10 million to sign on for American Assassin, with the hope that this will become just the first in a series of movies ...

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