Finally, some good news. Liam Neeson has announced he's 'unretired' from action movies.
In fact, he went one further than that and promised that he'll never stop making action movies, which is fantastic news, because I'm more than happy to watch Taken 19 when Bryan is 112 and still kicking everyone's arse. Take a look for yourself.
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Credit: Endurance Media/Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Speaking to Variety about recent rumours that he might be stepping down from acting, he said: "It's not true, look at me! You're talking in the past tense. I'm going to be doing action movies until they bury me in the ground. I'm unretired."
Neeson was talking to the magazine about his upcoming movie, Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, which is about the Watergate scandal.
Neeson in Taken 2. Credit: Taken 2/20th Century Fox
Neeson plays Felt, a FBI whistleblower, who was nicknamed 'Deep Throat' because he was constantly leaking top-secret info to the press about the political scandal back in the early 1970s.
Rumours of a possible retirement for Neeson began after the film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, when it was reported that Neeson said: "They're still throwing serious money at me to do that stuff.
"I'm like, 'Guys, I'm sixty-fucking-five'. Audiences are eventually going to go, 'Come on'."
No, we're not. We'd never say that.
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Speaking at the same festival, Neeson is reported by RTE as modestly saying his action-hero success was 'all a pure accident'.
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He's also appearing in a new film, The Commuter, which is released early next year and sees him play an insurance salesman who gets caught up in a criminal conspiracy while on his daily commute. I hate it when that happens.
And if all that isn't enough Neeson action for you, he's recently finished filming Hard Powder, a remake of a Norwegian film, which tells the story of a snowplough driver who is out for revenge against the drug dealers he believes are to blame for his son's death.
I love when Neeson's out for revenge. That's my favourite Neeson.
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The man likes to keep himself busy. He recently said he's open to new projects but, sadly, it's not all good news, because he's ruled out any other Taken movies. It turns out he thinks three was enough.
He said: "Not Taken, none of that franchise stuff." So, there goes my dreams of Taken 4-19.
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Ah well, we can't have everything, can we?
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