 The screenplay was written by Jonathan Lemkin but it has not yet been picked up by a studio.On January 1, 2010, Variety announced that Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day", "Shooter", "Olympus Has Fallen") would direct a planned adaptation of Consent to Kill for CBS Films with Lorenzo DiBonaventura and Nick Wechsler producing.Though CBS Films has expressed interest in Gerard Butler, Colin Farrell and Matthew Fox as possible candidates for Mitch Rapp "Teen Wolf" alum Dylan O'Brien subsequently won the part by 2016.