Official AMERICAN ASSASSIN Green and Red Band Trailers Here are the new AMERICAN ASSASSIN red and green band trailers! 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. Twenty three-year-old Mitch lost his parents to a tragic car accident at the age of fourteen, and his girlfriend to a terrorist attack just as they were engaged. Seeking revenge, he is enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy as a black ops recruit. Kennedy then assigns Cold War veteran Stan Hurley to train Mitch. Together they will later on investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets. The discovery of a pattern in the violence leads them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent to stop a mysterious operative intent on starting a world war in the Middle East.