Some people call them theatrical films showcasing the aging, yet somehow still awesome Liam Neeson, while I firmly believe that these masterpieces just happen to actually be home movies that have been slightly re-edited to include other actors, titles and less car chases.
After kicking all kinds of titanic ass in Wrath of the Titans, killing several sex ring traffikers, and teaching wolves what happens when skin meets broken glass, the Irishman is returning for another round of carnage, this time in the horror of the cattle-class section of an aircraft flight.
Neeson is currently in final negotiations for the part for Non-Stop, which will pair him once again with producer Joel Silver, after their last team up in Unknown.
Jeff Wadlow is currently attached to direct based on a script from writers Chris Roach and John Richardson, Variety reports, which will star Neeson as a stressed Air Marshal who happens to be on the flight that is hijacked by nefarious forces.
So probably more middle-eastern terrorists then.
In the meanwhile, you can catch Neeson flexing his godhood in Wrath of the Titans, as well as the upcoming Battleship and Taken 2.
Last Updated: April 4, 2012
James Francis
April 4, 2012 at 12:04
Liam Neeson never needed the force.
Justin Hess
April 4, 2012 at 13:59
So it’s like Die Hard. But on a plane. Wait, that’s Passenger 57
Kervyn Cloete
April 4, 2012 at 14:57
I fail to see a problem here.
Theunis Jansen Van Rensburg
April 4, 2012 at 15:27
I agree! 🙂
Justin Hess
April 4, 2012 at 18:28
Nope. None that I can see. Besides, Ol’ Liam has done a few action movies of late that have riffed on earlier films. Taken is Polanski’s Frantic with more ‘splosions.
Unknown feels like an older dude’s Bourne. And now Non-Stop. Nothing wrong with that.
The salient point isn’t that Liam’s recycling old material.
It’s that old material is getting the Liam treatment.
Now can someone please make a film where Liam Neeson plays a cop who joins up with a partner (preferably black) who’s close to retirement and is getting too old for this shit and then they have to figure out how they’re going to solve this case without blowing up half of Downtown
Kervyn Cloete
April 4, 2012 at 19:10
Who would you get as the partner though? Louis Gosset Jr? James Earl Jones?
It’s a pity about the whole, you know, being dead thing, coz Sydney Poitier would have been an awesome choice.
Justin Hess
April 5, 2012 at 09:33
Poitier’s old, but he’s not dead, near as I can tell. Louis Gosset seems the best bet for me.
Now the plot should be that Liam joins with his old partner and they have to solve a case involving Nazis kidnapping and transporting people across America. They’re also using wolves.
Fortunately, Liam has a very particular set of skills. But he’s forgotten about them until something happens that jogs his memory.
Man, this sounds better and better
Kervyn Cloete
April 5, 2012 at 10:29
Hnnn… I was convinced I had read a story a month or 2 back about him passing away, but apparently it may have been somebody else.