Director Jaume Collet-Serra is reuniting with action hero Liam Neeson for Non-Stop, following the 2011 thriller, Unknown, which was a big success last year to the tune of almost 0m. at the box office.
Returning to the action/thriller genre, Non-Stop was at the American Film Market, and following its appearance there, the first synopsis has made its way online, promising plenty more action from the duo.
“Coming off his smash hit TAKEN 2, Liam Neeson partners once again with UNKNOWN director Jaume Collet-Serra and producer Joel Silver. This time Collet-Serra goes a step further, plunging the audience into a movie that is at once a labyrinthine mystery, a high-octane action picture and a twist-filled Hitchcockian thriller where no one can be trusted and everyone is a suspect.
Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today’s flight will be no routine trip.
Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New York to London, he receives a series of mysterious text messages ordering him to have the government transfer $150 million into a secret account, or a passenger will die every 20 minutes. What follows is a nail-biting cat and mouse game played at 40,000 feet, with the lives of 200 passengers hanging in the balance.
NON-STOP isn’t just an action film, but a 500mph rush of adrenaline, suspense and excitement.”
Starring alongside Neeson will be a great supporting cast, headed up by Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, and the increasingly rising Scoot McNairy, who has been by far one of my favourite actors in recent years.
Collet-Serra is directing from a script by past collaborators Christopher Roach and John W. Richardson, both of whom are making their feature debuts as writers.
I was really hoping that Collet-Serra’s next project would be the live-action feature adaptation of Akira, but alas, the project seems to have been put on the back-burner, and it will be good to see the director re-team with Neeson once more, for what promises to be another big success.
Neeson was of course last seen in Taken 2, which has been doing very big business at the box office this season, and will likely continue to cement his status as a bankable action star/hero in the years to come.
Non-Stop is currently without a release date, but if everything goes smoothly through production, we’ll hopefully be seeing it in theatres before the end of next year. More as we get it.
Source: via Collider.
