Whoa! A Sequel to the hit film TAKEN is being Written
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- By drvenkman
I don’t know if you have seen the movie ‘Taken’ yet or not but if not you gotta go! This movie was awesome! And in it’s fifth week at the box office it is still number 3 on the chart. The film stars Liam Neeson and was produced by Luc Besson and co-written by Robert Mark Kamen. These guys have worked together on films such as ‘The Fifth Element’, ‘Kiss the Dragon’, ‘Unleashed’, and the ‘Transporter’ franchise. ‘Taken’ is by far one of the best most they have collaborated on. In the LA Times there is a great article that I suggest you read that talks about the history of these two guys and how they started making movies together. Make sure you check that out. It is in this article that we are told that Kamen is working on a couple more films which includes a sequel to ‘Taken’ and a American version of ‘District B 13′ which is based on the 2004 French action film.
I am not sure where they could go with a sequel to Taken. The ending of the film was wrapped up pretty well. *Spoiler Alert* All the major bad guys were killed and the daughter was saved. So there is only a couple ways I can see this movie going. First they would get a completely different cast where pretty much the same thing happens. That would be a major crap way to go. You gotta have Liam Neeson in the film, but how do you work him back in a story that has been wrapped up unless you give him another little adventure that does not include the kidnapping of his daughter again, which would be absolutely ridiculous. So in the same way Jack Ryan is in the books like ‘Patriot Games’ and ‘Clear and Present Danger’ keeps finding himself in crazy situations I think they should do the same thing with Neeson’s charater Bryan Mills. Just don’t call it ‘Taken 2′.
It will be the classic, “one more mission for old times sake” for the govt. that goes way wrong and ends up being way intense i bet.
Na… they’ll use the music singer because he’ll have become her head of security. Ah la Kevin Costner and Whitney without the romance.
The daughter and the singer have become great friends, or the daughters music career has taken off and she’s on tour with the other one, etc…
Still – Taken was great fun.
I’m thinking “Die Hard” here. Everything was solved-it’s all said and done with. Family is happy… OH here we are one year later and there is a new set of bad guys for some reason randomly targeting the area or family involving the original characters!
(p.s. District 13: 2 is coming out soon
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“All the major bad guys were killed and the daughter was saved.”
Aaaand now I don’t need to see the movie, thanks. And its ‘District B13′ dumbass.
Ozymandias proves he’s the smartest man in the world. (Sorry about this dry sense of humor.)
Jake: Good point. Why did you have to go and take that “Bodyguard” spin. I’m terrified now.
Listen, I’m not trying to start anything but I really was planning to watch that movie and am genuinely pissed that Dr. Venkman couldn’t be troubled with so much as a *SPOLIER ALERT*. I mean the dude writes for a website called GeekTyrant, you’d think he’d know how sensitive geeks are when it comes to spoilers. I understand that he didn’t exactly tell me Bruce Willis was dead the whole time or that Kevin Spacey is Keyser Söze, but still it is irritating. I mean, the guy started following me on Twitter, its not like I cam looking for this shit. Also, it does say to leave a ‘rant-back’, not ‘please place your kind discourse in the box below’.
Ozymandias I apologize. And I made some corrections. But regardless of how the movie ends its the ride that takes you there that is all the fun.
No worries Doc, just a pet peeve of mine. You’ve got a good thing going here, lots of new info that I hadn’t heard yet. Keep up the good work.
It will probably be a case where they will kidnap his daughter again, put him under a strict contract where they will want him to do something or they’ll kill his daughter, and he’ll still kill everyone to get her back.
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