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A young Bryan Mills must fight to overcome personal tragedy and exact revenge on those responsible on Taken, premiering Monday, February 27 at 10/9c on NBC. From Executive Producer Luc Besson ("Taken," "The Fifth Element") comes a thrilling new addition to his iconic blockbuster action-film franchise. This new, modern-day, edge-of-your-seat thriller follows the origin story of younger, hungrier, former Green Beret Bryan Mills ( Clive Standen , "Vikings") as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills. Please Leave A Comment-

Deadline is reporting that Taken , NBC’s straight-to-series adaptation of the hit movie franchise, has cast its lead, tapping The Vikings co-star Clive Standen to play younger Bryan Mills, the character portrayed in the movies by Liam Neeson . Written and executive produced by Alex Cary (Homeland), who serves as showrunner, the Taken TV series is a modern-day prequel to the film franchise that depicts how Bryan Mills (Standen) developed and sharpened his particular set of skills. EuropaCorp TV USA and Universal Television are producing. British actor Standen has been playing one of the central characters, Rollo, on History’s hit drama The Vikings, which is currently airing its fourth season, with a Season 5 renewal expected soon. Standen is segueing to Taken after completing has obligations on the History drama, filming the two 10-episode parts of Season 4. I hear his character is not being killed off, so there is a possibility for him to appear in Season 5 as a guest star. H

Luc Besson is revisiting Taken with NBC. The network on Thursday handed out a straight-to-series order for a drama prequel based on the 2008 action thriller written by Besson, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The drama hails from Universal Television and EuropaCorp, which produced the Liam Neeson feature film that helped transform the actor into an action star. There is no writer or showrunner attached to the reboot, though a search is underway. Also undetermined is the number of episodes that the Taken prequel will feature. The original film starred Neeson as Bryan Mills, a retired CIA operative on a mission to save his daughter. NBC's modern-day prequel would focus on how a young Bryan honed his skills and became the character depicted in the feature. The Taken prequel comes as IP — including features and TV series — have been hot commodities across broadcast and cable networks amid an increasingly cluttered original programming landscape. This development season

Third time is no charm for Bryan Mills' skills. Taken 3 Review by Brandon Wolfe Some franchises have a heck of a time justifying their continuing existence. While some films have premises conducive to repeat adventures, others are strictly one-shot-deals that simply aren’t built to spawn offspring. Die Hard was seemingly one of these films, but it somehow managed to buck the odds for at least a couple of sequels. More recently, someone got it into their head that The Hangover had trilogy potential when it very clearly only made sense as a single film. Now they’ve squeezed two sequels out of Taken , the 2009 sleeper hit where Liam Neeson used his now-infamous particular set of skills to take out the Eurotrash who absconded with his teenage daughter. Taken was a lean, satisfying, hugely effective action-thriller, but it was also a closed loop. When Neeson’s Bryan Mills got his daughter back, that was the logical conclusion of that story, until that story had to go and mak

While he was understandably miffed that slave traders kidnapped his daughter back in 2008’s Taken , Liam Neeson is now learning that his violent, stabby / shooty reaction had consequences. Here comes the trailer for Taken 2 , which finds the heroic Bryan Mills in a spot of trouble thanks to Rade Serbedzija’s Murad and his need for revenge. After a pleasant surprise visit from daughter Kim ( Maggie Grace ) and wife Lenore ( Famke Janssen ) in Istanbul, Bryan gets a less enjoyable shock when Lenore is targeted and he’s threatened. Guess what he’s going to do? Go on, we bet you can’t figure out that he’s going to use his particular set of skills to try to save his family (and himself) once more. LOCKOUT Interview Part 2 With Maggie Grace- Olivier Megaton takes over the directing chores this time around and delivers almost exactly what you’d expect based on this footage. We know Neeson can deliver the action goods, so the only real question is, will this live up to the original? W

LOCKOUT Review By: RAMA Would RAMA go and save the president's daughter? There’s nothing new about the concept, even though they describe it as Escape From New York in space. And to be honest, this is actually a pretty mindless action/thriller but it’s another work by producer Luc Besson who in recent years has helped bring his proteges’ films to the big screen, Taken, From Paris With Love , and now, LOCKOUT , these aren’t the most well-structured, well thought out films out there but they’re sure as hell entertaining. LOCKOUT is a essentially a popcorn flick, if you expect something more, then unfortunately that’s something that the movie can neither promise nor deliver and yes, in this case, it’s the movie’s fault… LOCKOUT Interview Part 1 With Maggie Grace- Guy Pearce’s character, Snow, in this film is pretty much a combo of John McLane and Tony Stark without the money. Wisecrackin’ smartmouth attitude with enough sarcasm to spare for the next century. I’m sure to som

Here's your chance to watch the first five minutes of LOCKOUT . LOCKOUT is an upcoming science fiction action film starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace . James Mather and Stephen St. Leger are both writing and directing it. LOCKOUT Interview Part 1 With Maggie Grace- From renowned action producer Luc Besson, LOCKOUT stars Guy Pearce (THE HURT LOCKER, upcoming PROMETHEUS), along with Maggie Grace (TAKEN, ABC’s LOST) and Peter Stormare (ARMAGEDDON, upcoming HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION). Please Leave A Comment-

Get a sneak peek of Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace in the upcoming sci-fi thriller LOCKOUT with a new clip from the film via MTV . In order to regain his freedom, falsely convicted ex-government agency Snow ( Pearce ) must rescue the President's daughter ( Grace ) from an outer space maximum security prison after it is taken over by rioting inmates. LOCKOUT Interview Part 1 With Maggie Grace- From the producers of TAKEN and renowned action filmmaker Luc Besson, LOCKOUT stars Guy Pearce (THE HURT LOCKER, upcoming PROMETHEUS), along with Maggie Grace (TAKEN, ABC’s LOST) and Peter Stormare (ARMAGEDDON, upcoming HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION). Watch the clip after the Jump... Get More: Movie Trailers , Movies Blog Official Site: http://www.lockoutfilm.com/ Official Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/lockoutmovie Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/LockoutMovie Please Leave A Comment-

In Theaters April 13,2012 We have your access to see LOCKOUT . Open Road Films has provide me with Exclusive passes for the fans to get access to the screening in San Francisco,Ca. Please Bring your ID's to the screening LOCKOUT is an upcoming science fiction action film starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace . James Mather and Stephen St. Leger are both writing and directing it. From renowned action producer Luc Besson, LOCKOUT stars Guy Pearce (THE HURT LOCKER, upcoming PROMETHEUS), along with Maggie Grace  (TAKEN, ABC’s LOST) and Peter Stormare (ARMAGEDDON, upcoming HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION). The screening will take place on April 10 at 7:00 PM at a San Francisco Area Theater. LOCKOUT Interview Part 1 With Maggie Grace- Make sure to LIKE SandwichJohnFilms on Facebook and why not come and follow me on Twitter also. Official Site: http://www.lockoutfilm.com/ Official Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/lockoutmovie Official Twitter: ht

This is part 2 of my interview with Maggie Grace . I had the opportunity to attend the WonderCon press junket for Open Road Films upcoming science fiction action film LOCKOUT starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace . LOCKOUT Interview Part 1 With Maggie Grace- Make sure to check back later I will be holding a screening for the film in San Francisco. Unfortunately Guy was unable to join us. But I did get a chance to talk to the beautiful Maggie Grace. We got a chance to ask her how it was working with Luc Besson whom she was worked with on Taken and the upcoming film Taken 2 . She explained to us how it was working with a green screen and what she took away from the action sequences that she did for the film. She gives us insight into the upcoming film also. Make sure to see the film on April 13, 2012 Official Site: http://www.lockoutfilm.com/ Official Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/lockoutmovie Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/LockoutMovie Please Le

I had the opportunity to attend the WonderCon press junket for Open Road Films upcoming science fiction action film LOCKOUT starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace . Unfortunately Guy was unable to join us. But I did get a chance to talk to the beautiful Maggie Grace . We got a chance to ask her how it was working with Luc Besson whom she was worked with on Taken and the upcoming film Taken 2 . She explained to us how it was working with a green screen and what she took away from the action sequences that she did for the film. She gives us insight into the upcoming film also. I was able to sneak in a question about Twilight for all you Twi-hards. LOCKOUT Gets A New Release Date- Make sure to see the film on April 13, 2012 Official Site: http://www.lockoutfilm.com/ Official Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/lockoutmovie Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/LockoutMovie Enjoy part one of the interview after the Jump... Please Leave A Comment-

LOCKOUT , the upcoming action-packed sci-fi thriller from the producers of TAKEN , will now be released nationwide one week earlier on April 13th, 2012 . The ornigial release date was April 20, 2012. Falsely convicted ex- government agent Snow ( Guy Pearce ) must rescue the President’s daughter ( Maggie Grace ) from an outer space maximum security prison after it is taken over by violent inmates. From renowned action producer Luc Besson, LOCKOUT stars Guy Pearce (THE HURT LOCKER, upcoming PROMETHEUS), along with Maggie Grace (TAKEN, ABC’s LOST) and Peter Stormare (ARMAGEDDON, upcoming HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION). Official Site: http://www.lockoutfilm.com/ Official Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/lockoutmovie Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/LockoutMovie Please Leave A Comment-

Check out the first official poster for LOCKOUT , the action-packed sci-fi thriller from the producers of TAKEN . Falsely convicted ex-government agent Snow ( Guy Pearce ) must rescue the President’s daughter ( Maggie Grace ) from an outer space maximum security prison after it is taken over by violent inmates. The film will be in theaters everywhere on April 20, 2012. From renowned action producer Luc Besson , LOCKOUT stars Guy Pearce (THE HURT LOCKER, upcoming PROMETHEUS), along with Maggie Grace (TAKEN, ABC’s LOST) and Peter Stormare (ARMAGEDDON, upcoming HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION). The film will be in theaters everywhere on April 20, 2012. Starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace and set in the near future, LOCKOUT follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent (Pearce), whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President’s daughter (Grace) from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison. Official Site:

Karl Urban and Ben Barnes have been cast as car-thief brothers in the France-set actioner Overdrive . Antonio Negret (Seconds Apart) is directing the project, which was written by Wanted and 2 Fast 2 Furious scribes Derek Haas and Michael Brandt. Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is in negotiations for the female lead. Pierre Morel, whose kidnapping thriller Taken was a surprise success in 2008, is producing along with Haas and Brandt. Filming begins October 29 in Marseilles. Urban , who plays Bones in the revamped Star Trek franchise, and Barnes, who plays Prince Caspian in the Chronicles of Narnia series, will play adventurous siblings who find more trouble than they are looking for in the South of France. Alex Pettyfer, Matthew Goode and Garrett Hedlund were each attached at various points during development. The movie sprang from a trip Haas and Brandt took overseas in November 2008, when they were invited by the French government to tour the country for ten days as

Taken 2 Script is Done And Ready To Go Buried in the Article was the Information about the Follow up to Taken. Kamen, who said he and Besson have scripted a sequel to "Taken" that will get made based on star Liam Neeson's availability next year, is working with Stoff for the first time since they started out together with the intention to become writing partners. So where does the next film take us? Maggie Grace (Kim Mills) goes on her own music tour and where she’ll be taken hostage and held for ransom. Sounds like a good starting point? What do you think? Please Leave A Comment- Soucre- Variety