Liam Neeson is set to star in the action-thriller Mongoose, an under-the-radar film on offer at the Cannes Film Festival Marché du Film, Deadline exclusively reported.

The Taken star, currently filming the remake of Naked Gun, will lead movie as Ryan “Fang” Flanagan, a war hero that has been accused of a crime he didn’t commit. With nothing to lose, he ends up leading the police on a bombastic televised cross-country car chased. Helping him are his friends from his days as a a member of the Army Special Forces. And all through the chase, the public watching are rooting for him to escape.

Liam Neeson will be in an epic police car chase

Neeson will reunite with Code Entertainment producers who were behind the 2021 movie The Ice Road and the upcoming Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky. Production on Mongoose will begin in January 2025 in Australia. The producers are currently casting for the other roles.

Mark Vanselow is set to direct the film from Thomson Evans’ script.

Code’s Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt and Eugene Musso will serve as producers. The production company is also set to fully finance the film. Jonathan Dana, Code’s Rich Freeman and Lisa Wilson and The Solution Entertainment Group’s Myles Nestel will serve as executive producers. Neeson has previously collaborated with The Solution, and the film is his fifth movie with them.

Corley and Rosenblatt said, “We are so very fortunate to be able to make another picture with the extraordinary Liam Neeson and the enormously talented Mark Vanselow. We look forward to another creative journey with our partners and friends.”

Vanselow started his career as an action sequence director, action designer, stunt coordinator and stuntman. He has been nominated for two SAG Awards for best stunt ensemble for his work in 2007’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Vanselow won a Taurus World Stunt Award in 2008 and a Vulture Stunt Award in 2023.

He has also been Neeson’s double for over 20 movies, including all three Taken films and both Ice Road ones.

Neeson starred in three movies last year: action-thriller Retribution, drama Wildcat and crime-thriller In the Land of Saints and Sinners. He has two movie in post-production, the crime mystery Thug and the mystery thriller Cold Storage.

The actor is set to take on Leslie Nielsen’s iconic role in Naked Gun.