What you may need to know:
1. It’s Taken 3, or Tak3n if you must. This time Bryan Mills must defend himself after being framed for the murder of his wife. And protect his daughter from a similar fate.
2. “My first priority is to protect the only one I have left”. Yusss.
3. When Liam Neeson was in Dublin for the premier of Taken 2 (2012) he told 98fm that he would not be interested in a Taken 3. He believed that it would be tantamount to “bad parenting”.
4. He finally agreed so long as nobody was actually taken.
5. Tak3n has the same writers and directors as Taken 2 (2012). They really have a very specific set of skills.
6. There are some pretty bad-ass scenes in the trailer. The jet having its landing gear removed by the drifting Porsche is one of them.
7. The film’s director is Olivier Megaton. His original name was Olivier Fontana but took Megaton as an artistic name, inspired by the fact that he was born 20 years to the day after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Hiroshima bomb was 16 kilotons.
8. Broadsheet Prognosis: Tak3n the p*ss.
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Apologies for French-language poster.
(DelBoy is away)
