AMERICAN ASSASSIN (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner), Michael Keaton (Spotlight), Sanaa Lathan (The Perfect Guy), Shiva Negar (Lost Journey), Taylor Kitsch (Lone Survivor), David Suchet (The Bank Job), Navid Negahban (American Sniper), Scott Adkins (Doctor Strange)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Michael Cuesta (Kill the Messenger), director; Michael Finch (Predators), Marshall Herskovitz (The Last Samurai), Stephen Schiff (True Crime) and Edward Zwick (Love & Other Drugs), writers; Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers) and Nick Wechsler (Magic Mike), producers; Steven Price (Gravity), composer; Enrique Chediak (127 Hours), cinematographer; Conrad Buff IV (Titanic), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Mitch Rapp (O’Brien), a CIA black-ops recruit, is left devastated after losing his girlfriend to a terrorist attack. He is soon placed under the tutelage of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Keaton), who trains Rapp how to thwart terrorist operations as efficiently as possible, and together they investigate a wave of seemingly random attacks on military and civilian targets, which leads to Rapp going on a mission to stop a mysterious operative known as “Ghost” (Kitsch), who is intent on starting a new war in the Middle East…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

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WHEN’S IT OUT?

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