Kidnappers, Beware! A Taken Prequel Series Is Heading to NBC

Luc Besson is revisiting Taken with NBC. Luc Besson, who wrote and produced all three Taken movies, will serve as executive producer. Now, there’s a prequel on the way, and it’s going to be set before the events of Taken.

Naturally, Neeson isn’t expected to return for the Taken prequel series, which will depict a much younger Bryan Mills before he was a family man and tell the story about how he became such a badass dude.

In the first film, Neeson played Bryan Mills, a retired Central Intelligence Agency operative who launches a mission to save his kidnapped daughter (Maggie Grace). 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”.

The plot of the series will reportedly focus on Mills without children and unmarried, but set today, not the late ’80s or early ’90s.

Andreeva adds that show has “landed a straight-to-series order at NBC”. The series will be a co-production between Besson’s studio EuropaCorp. and Universal TV.

Neither of the Taken sequels garnered quite the acclaim of the original, and it makes sense to explore a new TV angle, rather than drag poor Liam Neeson through another kidnapping venture.

The fall TV season is giving audiences several small screen takes on feature films, such as Foxs Minority Report and CBS Limitless, and it sounds like NBC wants to get in on the adaptation game. It joins La Femme Nikita and Transporter.