Offers Out: Ryan Gosling in Doug Liman’s All You Need Is Kill? Ben Affleck in Antoine Fuqua’s Consent to Kill?

Posted on Friday, November 5th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta

Industry tracking boards are reporting a couple interesting items today:

• Ben Affleck has apparently been offered the lead role in Antoine Fuqua’s (Bait, King Arthur, Shooter, Training Day) upcoming adaptation of the Vince Flynn novel Consent to Kill which Lorenzo di Bonaventura (GI Joe, Transformers) is producing for CBS Films.
• Ryan Gosling has apparently been offered the role of “Private Billy Cage” in Doug Liman‘s sci-fi project All You Need Is Kill.

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Antoine Fuqua Will Direct Consent to Kill, Based on Novel by Vince Flynn

Posted on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 by Russ Fischer

Antoine Fuqua is interesting proof that, with the right combination of ingredients, a director can really surprise you. Most of his catalog isn’t particularly impressive (Bait, King Arthur, Shooter) but then there’s Training Day. While we wait to see if Fuqua and his Training Day star Ethan Hawke can do a little alchemy again in Brooklyn’s Finest (have to say, doesn’t look like it) the director is lining up other work. He’s just signed on to direct an adaptation of the Vince Flynn novel Consent to Kill, about CIA assassin Mitch Rapp. Read More »

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