Mitch Rapp is brought in, he infiltrates the White House, and…yeah. The only difference is that in the book, the Secret Service gets the President down into the bunker and seal it off, but the terrorists spend most of the book cutting their way through it. In that book, a group of jihadists (yes they’re Muslim terrorists they still exist get over it) storm the White House during a press conference and take it over. When it is clear that the efforts of America’s national security forces outside the White House can do little, one exceptionally talented man must save them all.Īnd that’s pretty much a word-for-word description of Vince Flynn’s Transfer of Power – the first installment of the Mitch Rapp series. Olympus Has Fallen is a thriller about terrorists taking over the White House and scattering the Secret Service into pieces. So what does any of this have to do with Olympus Has Fallen? Bruce Willis will portray Stan Hurley (Rapp’s trainer)…which is actually kind of a perfect fit. His younger brother Liam is a better choice for that anyway, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Last year, there was talk about Chris Hemsworth starring as Mitch Rapp for American Assassin. I’m not going to tell you why, but you can take my word for that.
The other reason is: Consent To Kill is a really bad place in the series to start from. The studio decided that was a better place to start from.
The first reason was because in 2010, Vince Flynn’s next installment to the series – American Assassin was a book featuring a younger Mitch Rapp – his training and initiation to the CIA, his first kill, and his first big takedown. Antoine Fuqua ( Training Day, Tears of the Sun, & Shooter) was chosen to direct.īut the studio abandoned that project. The sixth book in the series – Consent To Kill has a script written for it by Jonathan Lemkin ( Lethal Weapon 4 & Shooter) that is still going around Hollywood. There had been talk in some of the quieter regions of Hollywood about adapting Flynn’s Rapp books into movie form by CBS films. the kind that American liberals and even the British love.Īnd you can take it from me they’re pretty awesome. They’ve all got a touch of right wing American jingoism to them, but it’s the fun kind – i.e. His thrillers are gripping, fast paced, violent, and explosive. He writes political and counter-terrorist thrillers, all of them starring CIA assassin/operative Mitch Rapp. Vince Flynn is an author of the New York Times bestseller Mitch Rapp series.
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