Pierre Morell’s ‘Taken’ airs tonight on W9. Since its release in 2008, Liam Neeson has been making action films. But is the actor set to reprise his role as a former US Secret Service agent in a fourth adventure?
In 2008, Liam Neeson stepped into the shoes of ex Brian Mills for the first time. An American Secret Service agent whose daughter (Maggie Grace), traveling in Paris, is kidnapped by a gang specializing in women’s trafficking. So the latter arrives in the French capital, determined to track down the thugs.
The feature film produced by Luc Besson is a success. With a budget of $24 million, the film collected 226 million green tickets internationally and a total of over 1 million admissions in France.
Four years later, Taken 2 was released, in which Brian and his family are hunted by the gang leaders from the first game. Directed by Olivier Megaton, the film fared better than the first installment, registering 2.9 million admissions in France and $376 million worldwide.
In 2015, Liam Neeson returns for a third adventure where he is wrongly accused of murdering his ex-wife (Famke Jansen). The film grossed $326 million internationally and attracted 2.6 million French theatergoers.
Since then, the Irish actor has been making action films And he became one of the emblematic figures of the genre, with about fifteen thrillers to his credit. The latest is Mark Williams’ Blacklight, which hits theaters in February 2022.
Is it possible to take 4?
Taken 3’s promotional campaign seems to have already announced the color with the poster tagline “This is where it all ends.” During promotional interviews, Olivier Megaton and Liam Neeson did not hesitate to say that the film would probably be the last in the saga.
But given the good results at the box office, the possibility of a fourth opus was not ruled out.
when asked about this possibility on the show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert In 2016, Liam Neeson finally announced that there would be no sequel to the trilogy. “No, it won’t be. You cannot kidnap your daughter more than once“- he joked. So the project is not visible.
Remember, though, that it has since been spawned by a TV series based on a film directed by Clive Standen, who plays a young Brian Mills.
The disappointed can at least console themselves with this Taken 4 parody trailer…with a Chihuahua!
Source: allocine
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