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Upcoming American film by James Hawes

The Amateur is an upcoming American thriller film directed by James Hawes and written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli, based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell, which was previously adapted into a film that year.

It stars Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Adrian Martinez, Danny Sapani, and Laurence Fishburne.

The film is scheduled to be released in the United States by 20th Century Studios on April 11, 2025.

Premise

After Charles Heller, a CIAcryptographer, loses his wife in a London terrorist attack, he realizes his bosses will not act due to conflicting internal priorities. Having blackmailed the agency to train him as a field operative, he embarks on a one-man mission to hunt down his wife's killers.^[1]

Cast

Production

Development on a new adaptation of the Robert Littell novel was first an