The tremendous success of Taken guaranteed a sequel and it seems as if Liam Neeson's character will be butting heads with more bad guys in Taken 2 around this time next year.
While we can't officially reveal when that hard hitting film will be in your local multiplex, we do know when the Yanks will be getting it and that's normally a pretty good guide: 5 October 2012.
After all, we're unlikely to get it ahead of the US - as we did with the first film - now it's become a successful franchise.
Olivier Megaton (The Transporter 3, Colombiana) will be sitting behind the camera, while Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen share scriptwriting duties again.
There's also now a plot synopsis for the film...
“Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent with a particular set of skills who stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from Albanian kidnappers. When the father of one of the kidnappers swears revenge, and takes Bryan and his wife hostage during their family vacation in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to help them escape, and uses the same advanced level of special forces tactics to get his family to safety and systematically take out the kidnappers one by one.”
Seems like Neeson has the same way of attracting trouble as John McClane does in Die Hard movies. The stories those two could tell over a beer!
Source: Den Of Geek
Surprised it's taken this long to get a sequel off the ground? Can Neeson and Besson/Kamen strike gold again? Tell us below!
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revan1138
Oct 14th 2011, 12:10
looking forward to this one as the first was great.plot sounds good as well.
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chaosdefined
Oct 14th 2011, 12:11
Really enjoyed the first one. The plot to this sounds a bit naff but I'll still give it a chance.
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veers
Oct 15th 2011, 0:30
Taken was great. Olivier Megaton - ugh. He ruined the Transporter franchise, and based on what I've read of Colombiana, hasn't gotten any better at directing since. I fear the worst.
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Hadouken76
Oct 15th 2011, 0:50
I dont care if its about a shoplifter who makes off with a tin o alphabetti spaghetti, I'm there!
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revan1138
Oct 15th 2011, 9:57
i agree veers this needs a better director or this will be a film that will be s**te.
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Seedorf
Oct 15th 2011, 13:29
Olivier Megaton?! The only way this could stand a chance of being any worse, is if Uwe Boll was lined up to direct.
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Hadouken76
Oct 15th 2011, 16:42
Megaton? Reminds me, I need to pick up a copy of The Wasteland Survival Guide :D
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Jcoyle
Oct 15th 2011, 20:05
When i hear there was going to be a sequel i thought "oh no please dont, what they going to do this time take his car keys off him" but this has pleasently suprised me, cant wait!
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TheEnigma
Oct 16th 2011, 3:59
This script remindz me about how Die Hard became ridiculously unbelieveable... if they wanna do it right, they should hav Neeson's character goin' back n2 tha seedy European Underworld for a friend or aquaintance who iz caught up in a more dangerous human trafficking ring connected to politicianz etc... he's done it b4 n succeeded, it'z quite plausible that he would b called on again...
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hepcat68
Oct 17th 2011, 15:56
I agree with the above, Mr. Megaton ruined The Transporter, he will probably mess this up buy trying to up the violence anti. The reason the first one was so good was because Bryan mills was just an ordinary guy, lets hope he keeps it on that track, then he might not mess it up to bad. Let's hope Besson is leaning over his shoulder!
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