Liam Neeson to Star in a SPEED-Like Action Thriller Titled RETRIBUTION
Liam Neeson has signed on to star in yet another action film project. He is showing no signs of slowing down. I’m still kind of amazed that this is the direction that his film career went. I’m not complaining! I’m just saying that I didn’t see the guy who played Oskar Schindler turning into an action star.
The new film he’s signed onto is titled Retribution, and the story follows a businessman in a “Speed-like dilemma when he discovers that a bomb has been planted in the car he’s driving by an unknown assailant, who tells the driver to execute a series of commands throughout the day or the bomb will be detonated. Making things worse, the businessman is accompanied in the car by his family.”
That seems to have all the ingredients of a solid Liam Neeson action-thriller. The movie is being produced by Studiocanal, The Picture Company and Jaume Collet-Serra (Non-Stop, The Commuter). Nimród Antal (Predators, Vacancy) is set to direct.
The movie is actually a remake of the acclaimed Spanish film El Desconocido, with a script by Chris Salmanpour and Andrew Baldwin. I’m not familiar with the original movie, but you can watch a trailer for it below to give you an idea of what to expect.
Source: Deadline