AMERICAN ASSASSIN Teaser Trailer Here is the first AMERICAN ASSASSIN teaser trailer! The film, directed by Michael Cuesta (Kill the Messenger), stars Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton, Scott Adkins, Taylor Kitsch, Sanaa Lathan, and David Suchet. AMERICAN ASSASSIN will be released in theaters on September 15. Long before he began hunting terrorists, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college scholar/athlete. Then, tragedy struck and Rapp was recruited into the nation’s most elite covert operations program. After completing training designed to teach the kind of lethal skills necessary to target our most dangerous enemies, here and abroad, he is a man reborn with a mission of retribution.