Liam Neeson is set to step back into another action hero role after landing a role as an expert assassin with a conscience.
Variety have reported that the Ballymena actor will star in the thriller Memory which is set be directed by Martin Campbell who helmed Casino Royale and Goldeneye.
Memory follows Neeson as an expert assassin who himself becomes a target when he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization.
The FBI is also on his tail, forcing the assassin to call on his exceptional skills to stay one step ahead.
The actor, nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Schindler’s List, has become as synonymous with action as Tom Cruise or Bruce Willis.
The Taken movies proved to be the surprise hit of the last decade sending the actor on the action hero path in the twilight of his career.
Films starring the Ballymena actor have pulled in over €6 billion since he first appeared on the big screen in Excalibur in 1981.
His roles in The Dark Knight Rises and Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace along with his role as the speaking voice of the lion, Aslan, in the blockbuster Narnia franchise helped secure his position as Ireland’s highest grossing movie star.
It is thought the actor’s controversial revenge remarks in the run-up to the release of his movie Cold Pursuit may have affected its performance but he has a string of movies due to open at the box office.
His next two films for the box office are set to follow the familiar team of a tainted hero on the run.
In Honest Thief, he plays a bank robber who tries to turn himself in because he’s falling in love and wants to live an honest life.
But when he realizes the Feds are more corrupt than him, he must fight back to clear his name.
In Marksman, he stars as a rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who’ve pursued him into the U.S.
