Bruce Willis is in talks to star in director Jeffrey Nachmanoff’s (“Traitor”) “American Assassin”, according to Variety.
The pic revolves around Mitch Rapp, a former Syracuse grad student who joins the CIA after his girlfriend his killed by a terrorist attack. Willis will play a CIA operative who serves as a mentor to Rapp.
Mike Finch wrote the script; Lorenzo Di Bonaventura (“Red”) will produce.
The hunt now begins to find a young actor to play the assassin Willis’s character mentors in the movie.
“American Assassin” will go into production in the Fall of 2013.
