American Assassin Page #3

Synopsis: Twenty three-year-old Mitch lost his parents to a tragic car accident at the age of fourteen, and his girlfriend to a terrorist attack just as they were engaged. Seeking revenge, he is enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy as a black ops recruit. Kennedy then assigns Cold War veteran Stan Hurley to train Mitch. Together they will later on investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets. The discovery of a pattern in the violence leads them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent to stop a mysterious operative intent on starting a world war in the Middle East.
Genre: Action, Thriller
Director(s): Michael Cuesta
Production: Lionsgate and CBS Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
34%
R
Year:
2017
112 min
$34,449,582
Website
2,828 Views


he had military training.

Unlearn?

Come on, Stan.

You drop one of your Navy

SEALs in an urban setting,

you can spot the boot

camp on them a mile away.

We're not fighting the...

Cold War?

Yeah, I know.

You keep telling me that,

Miss Deputy Director.

Oh, wow. "Miss

Deputy Director."

Your daddy would agree with me.

I'll be checking in with

you every 48 hours.

I'm on a plane to

London in the morning.

And go back on the

patch, for God's sake.

Don't prove me wrong.

She ain't coming back.

Hey.

Eyes front and center.

Sorry.

"Sorry"? Do I look like one

of your college professors?

You talk to me, you

call me "sir," son.

Yes, sir.

What the f*** you doing here?

Did you have some bad

things happen to you,

some shitty things

happen to you?

Now you wanna kill those

mean old terrorists.

Go get some bad guys.

What makes you think

you can make it

through my selection process?

Permission to speak, sir?

Sure, go ahead if you

got something to say.

Like this is all a big mistake

and you wanna go home.

You wanna go home? Good.

Get the f*** out of here.

I'll drive you myself.

Not at all, sir.

I was gonna suggest we maybe

speed this whole thing up?

My guess is, if you and

I go hand-to-hand,

you could probably figure

out inside of 20 seconds

whether or not I have

what it takes to make it

through your selection process.

So, what do you think?

We got an empty cot,

empty footlocker.

They're both yours as

long as you can last.

Sounds good.

Follow me.

See you out there.

Heard a lot about

you, by the way.

Excited to see what you got.

Kill me.

People think you can slice

a man's throat like this.

That's only in the movies.

Right there.

Do it.

No noise. No mess.

Victor, you're up.

What the f***, man?

Who grabs a f***ing blade?

Come on, you f***in'

p*ssy. Let's go!

You gotta have eyes in

the back of your head.

You flinch, you die.

Orion is about the mission.

It ain't about you.

You go down out there, you're

a ghost, you don't exist.

There's nobody, nobody

coming back for you.

You're about to be captured.

Bye-bye.

We now know 15 kilos

of plutonium-239

went missing during

the Russian breach.

It's enough to build a

full-scale nuclear weapon.

But that would likely require the

resources of a nation-state.

As Iranian Chief

of General Staff,

I share your concern.

We have been monitoring the

situation as you have.

I'm afraid we too

are in the dark.

For Iran, of course,

a nuclear weapon

is off the table.

We have a treaty.

You have countrymen who are

not too happy about that.

We monitor your nuclear enrichment

program pretty closely,

but black market

plutonium-239 from Russia...

Rate this script:5.0 / 1 vote

Stephen Schiff

Stephen Schiff is an American screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his work at The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, his screenplays for Lolita, True Crime, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and his work as a writer and producer on the acclaimed FX television series The Americans. more…

All Stephen Schiff scripts | Stephen Schiff Scripts

0 fans

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "American Assassin" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 21 May 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/american_assassin_2667>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.