Taken Is Getting A TV Series, Get The Details

Luc Besson is revisiting Taken with NBC. Taken, the trilogy of films that made everyone scared to talk to Liam Neeson on the phone, is being developed as a TV series, with creator Luc Besson involved as a producer, Deadline reports.

The series will follow a young Bryan Mills (the character played by Neeson in the three flicks) who has no wife and kids, opposed to the movies in which his wife and daughter are kidnapped.

According to the outlet, the plan is for the Taken TV series to offer a prequel of sorts to the films, exploring the early life of the Liam Neeson character, ex-covert operative Bryan Mills. The show will feature a young Mills, before he gets married. But in a further twist, Taken: The Series won’t be set in the past even though Bryan Mills would have been in his twenties during the “70s”.

Mashable has confirmed that the network has put in a straight-to-series order for the show, based on the 2008 movie and subsequent sequels, which have grossed more than $928 million worldwide. The longline pays homage to the first movie by stating, “What I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career; Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you”. The series will be a co-production between Besson’s studio EuropaCorp. and Universal TV. It joins La Femme Nikita and Transporter.