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[email protected] [email protected] RUNNING TIME: 112 MINUTES www.american-assassin.com CBS Films and Lionsgate present A Lorenzo di Bonaventura/Nick Wechsler production. A film by Michael Cuesta. Directed by Michael Cuesta, the screenplay is by Stephen Schiff and Michael Finch and Edward Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz, and is based on a novel by Vince Flynn. The film stars Dylan O’Brien, Academy Award®-nominee Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Shiva Negar, David Suchet, Navid Negahban, Scott Adkins, and Taylor Kitsch. “American Assassin” is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Nick Wechsler, and executive produced by Daniel M. Stillman. The Director of Photography is Enrique Chediak, ASC. Production design by Andrew Laws. Film Editor is Conrad Buff, ACE. Costume Designer is Anna Sheppard. Music by Steven Price. And Casting by Elaine Grainger. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THE FILM 5 ABOUT THE CAST 21 ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS 28 4 ABOUT THE FILM “Never, ever let it get personal.” – Stan Hurley, CIA Trainer A one-of-a-kind American assassin possessed of savage skills and a ferocious drive for payback is born in this non-stop action-espionage thriller rooted in the raw reality of today’s hard-to-detect enemies invisible black ops, high-level surveillance, portable nukes and murky agendas. This is the story of a 21st Century counterterrorist spymaster-in-the-making who, in a world of new rules, breaks all the old molds.