O’Brien’s intense training for American Assassin
To prepare for what could be Hollywood’s most action-packed movie of the year, rising star Dylan O’Brien, together with his co-stars Golden Globe winner (for Birdman) Michael Keaton, Taylor Kitsch and Shiva Negar, underwent months of intense training for American Assassin.
Early on, they worked closely with ex-military and ex-intelligence officers to equip themselves for their big roles in the movie, learning martial arts, intelligence terminology and even high-speed driving.
American Assassin tells the story of of Mitch Rapp (O’Brien), who lost both parents in a tragic accident when he was 14, and years after, his fiancée in a terrorist attack minutes after proposing. Full of anger and despair towards the people who had hurt him, he meets CIA deputy director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) who recruits him to become part of a black ops unit.
During training, he gets assigned to Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Keaton) and together, they investigate a series of random attacks on military and civilians. Soon, they discover a pattern that leads them to a terrorist intent of starting a world war on the Middle East.
Based on the New York Times bestseller of the same name from author-screenwriter Vince Flynn, the film also co-stars David Suchet and Scott Adkins.
American Assassin is from Pioneer Films and now showing nationwide.