Liam Neeson To Retire From Action Films In 2 Years
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Liam Neeson, who has had an impressive career upsurge from the Taken franchise, has said the end of kick-ass roles is in sight
His new film may be called Run All Night, but Liam Neeson knows there’s a limit to his energy – and has said he’s getting ready to call time on ass-kicking action role
“Maybe two more years. If ? spares me and I’m healthy,” he said in a US interview. “But after that, I’ll stop [the action] I think.”
Neeson, who originally broke through with dramas like Schindler’s List and Michael Collins, became known to a whole new generation of film fans with 2008 action hit Taken. Playing Bryan Mills, a man with an exceedingly quotable “particular set of skills” who fights to save his daughter from sex traffickers, the film and its two sequels have grossed nearly $900m worldwide.
Its success has prompted a number of other action roles for Neeson, in plane hijack thriller Non-Stop, the big-screen A-Team remake, improbable board game adaptation Battleship, and moody crime drama A Walk Among the Tombstones. Run All Night also treads similar ground to Taken, with Neeson on a mission to protect his son from a mobster played by Ed Harris
“I’m in a very, career-wise, great place,” Neeson said of the movies. “The success of certainly the Taken films, Hollywood seems to see me in a different light. I get sent quite a few action-oriented scripts, which is great. I’m not knocking it. It’s very flattering. But there is a limit, of course.”
He has alluded to hanging up his pistol before, saying around the release of Taken 3: “If I feel audiences saying, ‘Come on, he’s 62, enough is enough,’ I’m very sensitive to that and if I pick up that vibe it will all stop. And I’ll start playing dads or grandfathers. But I keep myself pretty fit and my knees are still great. And it’s fun.”
Joel Kinnaman, who plays Neeson’s son in Run All Night, said of the actor: “He’s so physically capable, he’s an old boxer. When he knocks somebody out in the movie, you believe it... Ed, Liam and Nick [Nolte]. They are people I’ve looked up to and revered their work. I think it’s kind of cool with all these old farts kicking ass, killing people.”
Taken’s success has also generated a slew of similarly bone-crunching roles for other “old farts kicking ass”, with Sean Penn in The Gunman, Pierce Brosnan in The November Man, and Kevin Costner in 3 Days to ?
His new film may be called Run All Night, but Liam Neeson knows there’s a limit to his energy – and has said he’s getting ready to call time on ass-kicking action role
“Maybe two more years. If ? spares me and I’m healthy,” he said in a US interview. “But after that, I’ll stop [the action] I think.”
Neeson, who originally broke through with dramas like Schindler’s List and Michael Collins, became known to a whole new generation of film fans with 2008 action hit Taken. Playing Bryan Mills, a man with an exceedingly quotable “particular set of skills” who fights to save his daughter from sex traffickers, the film and its two sequels have grossed nearly $900m worldwide.
Its success has prompted a number of other action roles for Neeson, in plane hijack thriller Non-Stop, the big-screen A-Team remake, improbable board game adaptation Battleship, and moody crime drama A Walk Among the Tombstones. Run All Night also treads similar ground to Taken, with Neeson on a mission to protect his son from a mobster played by Ed Harris
“I’m in a very, career-wise, great place,” Neeson said of the movies. “The success of certainly the Taken films, Hollywood seems to see me in a different light. I get sent quite a few action-oriented scripts, which is great. I’m not knocking it. It’s very flattering. But there is a limit, of course.”
He has alluded to hanging up his pistol before, saying around the release of Taken 3: “If I feel audiences saying, ‘Come on, he’s 62, enough is enough,’ I’m very sensitive to that and if I pick up that vibe it will all stop. And I’ll start playing dads or grandfathers. But I keep myself pretty fit and my knees are still great. And it’s fun.”
Joel Kinnaman, who plays Neeson’s son in Run All Night, said of the actor: “He’s so physically capable, he’s an old boxer. When he knocks somebody out in the movie, you believe it... Ed, Liam and Nick [Nolte]. They are people I’ve looked up to and revered their work. I think it’s kind of cool with all these old farts kicking ass, killing people.”
Taken’s success has also generated a slew of similarly bone-crunching roles for other “old farts kicking ass”, with Sean Penn in The Gunman, Pierce Brosnan in The November Man, and Kevin Costner in 3 Days to ?
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It's good he's in touch with reality as an artist
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he needs to stop right now
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At least he knows at some point he has to stop milking the cow. Chris Tucker could learn a thing or 2 from him.
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? said that like he Jackie Chan or somebody.....he better ride that wave
him and Denzell the only two actors that can be the same ? in every movie and people still buy it
SN: i know that wolf ? him up at the end of The Grey....i know he did....that's why they ended it there....fool gone tape some glass to the back of his hands.....you aint McGyver or no Jean Claude bruh lol -
I saw the latest one on tv and was finally like "ENOUGH"
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? said that like he Jackie Chan or somebody.....he better ride that wave
him and Denzell the only two actors that can be the same ? in every movie and people still buy it
SN: i know that wolf ? him up at the end of The Grey....i know he did....that's why they ended it there....fool gone tape some glass to the back of his hands.....you aint McGyver or no Jean Claude bruh lol
he took the wolf down with em, post credits scene it seemed both him and the wolf were dying lol -
All his movies have damn near the same storyline...he wont be missed.
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To the poster above who seems only familiar with his work with Taken, his body of work actually has quite a bit of range.
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Chef_Taylor wrote: »All his movies have damn near the same storyline...he wont be missed.
You must be a lil ? to say this "All his movies" smh -
HundredEyes wrote: »? said that like he Jackie Chan or somebody.....he better ride that wave
him and Denzell the only two actors that can be the same ? in every movie and people still buy it
SN: i know that wolf ? him up at the end of The Grey....i know he did....that's why they ended it there....fool gone tape some glass to the back of his hands.....you aint McGyver or no Jean Claude bruh lol
he took the wolf down with em, post credits scene it seemed both him and the wolf were dying lol
I dont remember seeing that -
HundredEyes wrote: »? said that like he Jackie Chan or somebody.....he better ride that wave
him and Denzell the only two actors that can be the same ? in every movie and people still buy it
SN: i know that wolf ? him up at the end of The Grey....i know he did....that's why they ended it there....fool gone tape some glass to the back of his hands.....you aint McGyver or no Jean Claude bruh lol
he took the wolf down with em, post credits scene it seemed both him and the wolf were dying lol
I dont remember seeing that
sounds like the wolf was taking its last breath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Iu-pb_ME4 -
Dude is awesome. I had no idea he was in his 60s though. He actually the right age for what he does as White America love lone vigilante flicks, salty old veterans who take it to the young punks, they are modern westerns in a way. They all about justice and the sense of right and wrong which appeals to a certain demographic.
The grizzled veteran action movie has made a major comeback the last few years. New Die Hard flicks, The Expendables franchise, a new Rambo, all these old cats getting one more run. So I ain't mad at him going in on the new thing while he can. -
Here's hoping he goes back to making movies with decent story lines now. The first taken was decent but he is too good of an actor to stay playing one role all the time
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HundredEyes wrote: »? said that like he Jackie Chan or somebody.....he better ride that wave
him and Denzell the only two actors that can be the same ? in every movie and people still buy it
SN: i know that wolf ? him up at the end of The Grey....i know he did....that's why they ended it there....fool gone tape some glass to the back of his hands.....you aint McGyver or no Jean Claude bruh lol
he took the wolf down with em, post credits scene it seemed both him and the wolf were dying lol
I dont remember seeing that
Yeah, happened after the credits, it insinuated that both him and the wolf died.
But yeah I'm tired of seeing Neeson as an aging world weary alcoholic with skills who's forced into action to make the world wide right.
I watched Non-Stop and it actually held my interest until the laughable ? awful twist at the end. -
HundredEyes wrote: »? said that like he Jackie Chan or somebody.....he better ride that wave
him and Denzell the only two actors that can be the same ? in every movie and people still buy it
SN: i know that wolf ? him up at the end of The Grey....i know he did....that's why they ended it there....fool gone tape some glass to the back of his hands.....you aint McGyver or no Jean Claude bruh lol
he took the wolf down with em, post credits scene it seemed both him and the wolf were dying lol
I dont remember seeing that
sounds like the wolf was taking its last breathhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Iu-pb_ME4
why all the youtube embeds stop working? -
he's gonna stop making the same movie over and over again?
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He really had to announce this? He couldn't just tell us 2 years from now?
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HundredEyes wrote: »? said that like he Jackie Chan or somebody.....he better ride that wave
him and Denzell the only two actors that can be the same ? in every movie and people still buy it
SN: i know that wolf ? him up at the end of The Grey....i know he did....that's why they ended it there....fool gone tape some glass to the back of his hands.....you aint McGyver or no Jean Claude bruh lol
he took the wolf down with em, post credits scene it seemed both him and the wolf were dying lol
I dont remember seeing that
Yeah, happened after the credits, it insinuated that both him and the wolf died.
But yeah I'm tired of seeing Neeson as an aging world weary alcoholic with skills who's forced into action to make the world wide right.
I watched Non-Stop and it actually held my interest until the laughable ? awful twist at the end.
nah he lived the wolf died
