Liam Neeson Knows Where He'll Be For 'The Next Three Days'

by Elisabeth Rappe Oct 5th 2009 // 3:18PM

Filed under: Action, Foreign Language, Thrillers, Casting, Lionsgate Films, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels

I'm beginning to think that Liam Neeson owns Hermione Granger's Time Turner, or that he has a lifelong supply of Red Bull because he's signed on for another role -- and this one would appear to be filming simultaneously with The A-Team. According to The Hollywood Reporter reports that Neeson has just joined Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks in Paul Haggis' The Next Three Days.

Days is a remake of the 2008 French thriller Pour Elle, and accuses an ordinary woman (Banks) of a gruesome crime she insists she didn't commit. She's sent to prison and becomes suicidal, and her desperate husband (Crowe) plots to break her out. (Ah, love!) But she'll have a little help from Neeson, who plays an ex-con who has broken out of prison multiple times, wrote a how-to guide about it, and offers his assistance to Crowe. The role is being described as "cameo in nature" which suggests Neeson might be narrating his own Dummy's Guide to Escaping From Prison, or is at least available to Crowe by cell phone to work out the tougher bits.

Filming just started on Days in Pittsburgh last Friday, and wraps on December 12. The A-Team just started filming too, so I'm honestly surprised that their schedules can coincide so neatly. Maybe Neeson is ducking down to Pittsburgh and filming this one on the weekends. I think they're missing a prime opportunity here to tie The Next Three Days into The A-Team universe. If there's one thing Hannibal Smith knows anything about, it's being accused of crimes you didn't commit, and evading the law until you're free of them.

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Tags: elizabeth banks, ElizabethBanks, Liam Neeson, LiamNeeson, Lionsgate, Paul Haggis, PaulHaggis, Pour Elle, PourElle, Russell Crowe, RussellCrowe, The Next Three Days, TheNextThreeDays

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10-05-2009 @ 4:46PM

Andy said...

Poor guy. Probably trying to just keep very busy after losing his wife. What a shame.

Maybe the best thing to do really. Bury yourself in your work.

10-06-2009 @ 11:23AM

Anthony said...

They are filming right now about an hour south of Pgh. on an unfinished highway. It was all over the local news last night.

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