Liam Neeson has added a couple of new projects to his upcoming slate in the thriller Thug and action sci-fi Cold Storage.
Thug will reunite Neeson with his Cold Pursuit director Hans Petter Moland and sees him playing “an ageing San Pedro gangster (Neeson) who attempts to reconnect with his children and rectify the mistakes in his past, but the criminal underworld won’t loosen their grip willingly.”
Cold Storage is being directed by Jonny Campbell (Westworld, Doctor Who) from a novel and script by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Spider-Man) and will see Neeson leading the cast alongside Stranger Things star Joe Keery. The film’s logline reads:
Several decades ago, a highly infectious, constantly mutating micro-organism — capable of extinction-level destruction — was contained in a military facility. In the present day, the military has sealed the facility’s lowest sublevel selling the remaining space to a self-storage company. As temperatures rise underground, the micro-organism finds a way to escape — and if left to spread, it will soon uncontrollably multiply around the world. The fate of humanity now rests on a retired bioterror operative and two unlikely heroes employed in the facility, who are caught in a race against time to destroy the organism and save mankind.
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Both Thug and Cold Storage are set to shoot this fall. Neeson meanwhile was most recently seen in the action thriller Memory alongside Guy Pearce and Monica Belluci, which opened in the U.S. in April. Read our review here.
Via Deadline
