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Vince Flynn's "Mitch Rapp" to finally hit the big screen.

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Mitch Rapp is a CIA operative in a series of counterterrorism novels by Vince Flynn. I've never read them, but they're pretty popular and I guess a more action-oriented version of Jack Ryan.

Anyway, after one studio head rejected it for being "more Bush than Bush" (Sherry Lansing?) and another wondered if they could replace the Middle Eastern terrorists with Filipino terrorists so as not to offend anyone (because apparently you can't offend Filipinos), CBS Films is making "Consent to Kill," which is the sixth book in the series.

But the point of this post is to get to the casting, and Deadline.com is reporting that the Gerard Butler is the leading candidate to star in the movie, but Colin Farrell and Matthew Fox are also under consideration (feelers were sent out to Keanu Reeves and Jon Hamm, but apparently they're not the top choices). Antoine Fuqua (Brooklyn's Finest, Training Day, King Arthur, Tears of the Sun) is directing.
 
Vince Flynn's early stuff is actually pretty well done, but as the series goes on it gets so America Uber Alles that it becomes ridiculous. Mitch Rapp is basically Jack Bauer without a time limit or compunctions, and anyone opposing him is either a remorseless Arab terrorist mastermind or a worthless pantywaist liberal preventing him from Getting Things Done by bleating about things like civil rights and the law of the land.

That the moviemakers want to start with the sixth book, which is in large degree an ultraviolent revenge story in which lots of Arab terrorists have their own tactics used against them, is probably a sign that they're not interested in the political machinations that played a major part in the earlier novels. :D
 
That's nice. I'll pass.

Flynn certainly sells a lot of books, but they're not really my cup of tea. I tried reading one... it made Tom Clancy look like a pinko commie.
 
I enjoy the book series...but it's getting more and more 'out there' as people are saying above.

Rapp is also very close to Jack Bauer. (which makes sense since Flynn was involved with 24)
 
Corran Horn said:
Rapp is also very close to Jack Bauer. (which makes sense since Flynn was involved with 24)
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Didn't know that, but I guess that definitely explains the Bad-Ass Bauer feeling I get with I read Rapp's character. Although I don't always agree with Flynn's politics, he is a damn good writer when it comes to telling a fast-paced action story.
 
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