Another day, another movie where Liam Neeson's cinematic loved ones are in danger. He's practically a cottage industry for the family peril thriller genre at this point. But people keep watching the films, so he'll keep making them. His latest is Retribution.
The movie will be a remake of Spanish thriller El Desconocido, with Studiocanal picking up the rights and putting the new version in motion alongside Neeson's regular collaborator Jaume Collet-Sera's production company. Unusually, though, Collet-Sera won't be in the director's chair for this one, letting someone else handle that job.
Chris Salmanpour and Andrew Baldwin have written the script, which will find Neeson as a Wall Street executive who discovers that someone has planted a bomb in his car and he has to follow a series of orders during a day or he and his family are toast. Yes, it sounds like Speed meets Money Monster. Once a director has been found, it should be ready to shoot in the autumn.
Neeson's next action thriller is The Commuter, which was directed by Collet-Serra and will be out here on 19 January.