Deadline has revealed Michael Keaton (American Assassin), Samuel L. Jackson (The Hitman’s Bodyguard) and Maggie Q (Mission: Impossible III) have joined Casino Royale director Martin Campbell on his next project The Asset, a film that sees the trio as some of the world’s best assassins.
Scripted by Richard Wenk (The Equalizer 2), The Asset follows Rembrandt (Keaton) and Anna (Maggie Q), two of the world’s premier assassins who share a mysterious past from Vietnam. For years, they traversed the globe competing for high-profile contracts. But when Anna’s mentor Moody (Jackson) is murdered, she and Rembrandt must form an uneasy alliance and return to Vietnam to track down his killer.
The film will be shot in London, Bucharest and DaNang, Vietnam with production scheduled to begin January 2020. It will be produced by Arthur Sarkissian (the Rush Hour trilogy), Moshe Diamant (The Hurricane Heist) and Rob Van Norden (Rambo: Last Blood) with Millennium Media also producing and distributing the film.
“The Asset is the whole package,” said Millennium’s Jeffrey Greenstein, “and we are excited to bring Richard Wenk’s masterful, muscular script to life with the all-star talent of Michael, Samuel, and Maggie. Having a great director like Martin Campbell at the helm will make all the difference in turning this into a big, stylish, and action-packed thrill ride.”
