Jon Hamm to play Mitch Rapp?
UPDATE: 10/7/09 Brad Pitt is Mitch Rapp, If He Wants It
According to #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn, Mad Men actor Jon Hamm has the look and build to play “Mitch Rapp” in the yet to be cast movie adaptations of his immensely popular novels.
On this week’s Radio Happy Hour, host Dr. Blogstein suggested Hamm for the Rapp role and described it as “the casting coup of the world” (whatever that means). Flynn responded emphatically, “Oh gosh…Not a bad call,” but warned that Hamm would “have to mess his hair up.”
Vince Flynn comes in at the 38:55 mark
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Flynn’s books have been sold by CBS Films and will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (”Transformers”) and Nick Wechsler (“We Own The Night”). Flynn also telling the Radio Happy Hour that he expects to see a draft of the screen play in four weeks.
It is not yet known which of Flynn’s books will be made first in what is being billed as CBS Films’ signature franchise but there is plenty of speculation.
According to movie website imbd.com, Protect and Defend will be the first Flynn novel adapted though at a book signing in Northvale, NJ this week, the author told the crowd that Consent to Kill is slated to make it to the silver screen first. There have also been rumors that the first Mitch Rapp Movie will be a combination of Flynn’s Memorial Day and Consent to Kill.
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
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October 23rd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Hey blogstein, I see you have been put on the blogger restricted list. I always knew that about you!
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
What’s it mean that I on the blogger restricted list?
October 24th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Yes! That is a perrrfect choice!
July 12th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Although he doesn’t need more work, I think Christin Bale would due the character justice.
July 15th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
colin farrell…. dark, brooding, athletic, right age, with the inner rage necessary to bring mitch rapp to life.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
How about an American actor?
August 25th, 2009 at 11:32 am
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August 30th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
The actor who plays Mitch Rapp needs to be an American. Mitch Rapp was recruited right out of a U.S. college. Start with the All-American basics, even if the person is a complete unknown. The guy who gets the role of Mitch Rapp would be the American version of James Bond!
September 8th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I think CBS should look at the Fox 35 Bones series, and choose David Boreanaz as Mitch Rapp. He has played an FBI agent Seely Booth on the series for a few years now and fits my profile of Mitch. Tall, dark & handsome!!
October 6th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Why doesn’t Vince play Mitch!!!
PERFECT………..
February 4th, 2010 at 8:03 am
Rapp: Jon Hamm
Kennedy: Diane Lane
Reilly: Isla Fisher
Stansfield: John Mahoney
Coleman: Peter Krause
Dumond: Dule Hill
Nash: Kyle Chandler
Hayes: Kevin Kline
O’Rourke: Donnie Wahlberg
McMahon: John C. Reilly (or David Morse)
Garrett: Paul Giamatti
Warch: Thomas Hayden Church (or David Morse)
Nance: Kevin Pollak
Friedman: Ken Davitian
Jones: Allison Janey
Middleton: Ken Howard
Ross: Jon Voight