Liam Neeson is a man with a seriously hard work ethic. On screen he commands authority and at the moment it would appear that everyone wants the Irishman on board. In a new
interview with Variety, Neeson has announced his 775th film in development will be
An Ordinary Man, a low budget indie flick from director
Brad Siberling (Land of the Lost) about a fugitive war criminal modeled on Slobodan Milosevic and the people that surround and protect him. Now that's just about all I know but damn if that doesn't sound interesting. Then Neeson claims his 776th film in development is
Last Stand, Korean director
Ji Woon Kim's (A Bittersweet Life, The Good, The Bad and the Weird) English-language debut about a sheriff on the US/Mexican border. The contemporary Western is being described as
"Gone in 60 Seconds:" meets
High Noon and features a Gumpert Apollo, a 200 mph race car used by drug smugglers, and it centers on a cartel leader that uses it to break out of a courthouse. As he speeds to the Mexican border, the only thing standing in his way is a border-town sheriff and his inexperienced staff. At this point, it would probably be easier to list the projects he is not involved in, but here's a quick rundown of what he currently has on his slate. He has the third installment in the
Narnia series awaiting release and Euro-thriller
Unknown coming in February. He has a part in
Battleship, Peter Berg's film adaptation of the Hasbro Boardgame. He has cameo in
The Hangover 2, and currently on U.S. screens in
The Next Three Days. January sees start filming on his A-Team director
Joe Carnahan's new thriller The Grey and don't forget about the trifling matter of the Clash of the Titans sequel,
Wrath of the Titans. So over the next couple of years you'll be forgiven for feeling a sense of Neeson omnipresence, he is Zeus after all, but that's not exactly a bad thing is it? For every bad Neeson movie (The Other Man), you just know there's a better one quickly on the horizon (Chloe)