Liam Neeson Reteaming WIth Unknown Director For Plane Thriller Non-Stop published: 2012-05-10 09:21:57 Author: Katey Rich (CINEMA BLEND)

No one has been able to quite replicate the throat-punching intensity of Liam Neeson's first action hero effort, 2009's brazen and silly and great Taken. But that's not going to stop a lot of people from continuing to try, and Jaume Collet-Serra may be trying hardest of all. His 2011 film Unknown was essentially "Taken goes to Berlin," and though it was some silly fun in its own right, it couldn't hold a candle to either the style or global grosses of Pierre Morel's original film. And now that Neeson is set to star in Taken 2 later this year, he's also going to team up again with Collet-Serra, in the continuing efforts to prove just who can make Neeson the biggest badass on earth

Well, make that the biggest badass in the sky. According to Variety Neeson will be starring for Collet-Serra in Non-Stop, playing a man forced to stop a threat aboard an international flight.


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Gerard Butler to Topline White House Action Film OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (COLLIDER)

by Adam Chitwood Posted:March 17th, 2012 at 11:28 am

If you’re a fan of the high concept action films of yesteryear (ie. the 1990s) like Con Air and Air Force One, this story may be of particular interest to you. Variety reports that Gerard Butler has signed on to star in the actioner Olympus Has Fallen.

The story is described as Die Hard in the White House and centers on a “down-on-his-luck ex-Secret Service agent who becomes America’s only hope when 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is taken over by terrorists.” Despite the absurdity of the premise, I think this sounds like a sufficiently fun action pic.

In a sea of gritty/realistic/gimmicky action movies, an over-the-top story fronted by a hardened lead is actually kind of refreshing.


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