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New movie for Liam: Taken, co-starring Maggie Grace


Liam will play the role of an ex-spy, who's estranged daughter (Maggie Grace, aka Shannon from LOST) is kidnapped and forced in to the slave trade. He tries rescuing her. He is filming it now in Paris in February and March 2007. The script is written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, directed by Pierre Morel. (Attention: there is already a different movie named "Taken" in 2002, nothing to do with that, though).
source: imdb.com
Behind the cut are more rumors about Liam's future movies: Xavier, Paisley movie

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Liam Neeson is completing the TV movie "Xavier". Plot: This is a PBS-style documentary film on the life of the famed 16th-century Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. The movie tells the missionary's compelling story through Neeson's narration with dramatizations, interviews, contemporary location shots, paintings and engravings, maps, and most importantly, the extant letters of Xavier.
source: movievine
Liam Neeson to play Reverend Paisley?
source: belfast telegraph . I pasted the article below.
Take two: Now there's a second film about Paisley in the pipeline
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
By Maureen Coleman
An Ulster company behind plans for a second feature film on the life of Ian Paisley has said it is hopeful the movie will go ahead - without the seal of approval from the DUP leader's family.
Straight Faced Productions, a sister company of Straight Forward Productions, is currently is in negotiations with the agent of a scriptwriter to secure a deal for a movie on Northern Ireland's most recognised politician.
The company has already won funding from the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission and the Irish Film Board and has a deadline of April 30 to entice the scriptwriter on board the project.
The film, if it goes ahead, will be independent of the Paisley family.
The news comes after local writer Gary Mitchell revealed he has been commissioned by the Paisleys to come up with a script about the DUP man's life.
It is understood Ian Paisley Jnr will be executive producer on the project.
Describing the script as "a tremendous opportunity to explore and expose the great man and all his vices and virtues", the film has the total support of the Paisley clan.
Mr Mitchell also said he would love Ballymena-born actor Liam Neeson to play the main role.
Ian Kennedy of Straight Faced Productions, the company behind the second project, said he had not spoken to anyone in the Paisley family.
But he said he was confident the movie would go ahead as planned.
"At the moment we are in negotiations with the agent of a screen writer who is well-known but does not live in Northern Ireland," he said.
"I am hopeful we will reach an agreement by April 30, which is the deadline to accept the joint development loan to fund the project.
"Whether or not there is room for two movies about Ian Paisley is really up to the market place and will come down to things like the quality of the writing.
"We would also like to see an actor from Northern Ireland play the lead role, but at this stage it's too early to say anything.
"We will just have to wait and see the script."
Mr Kennedy said that if the deal went ahead, it could still take up to another 18 months to two years before the film is actually made.
"We have not approached the Paisley family and they have not spoken to us," he said.
"Our movie will be totally independent of the Paisley family."

Posted: Di - März 27, 2007 at 08:17 nachm.      

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