Liam Neeson, action hero.
Heat Vision reports that Liam Neeson is in talks to take over for Bradley Cooper in “Grey,” a film that Joe Carnahan plans to direct. Carnahan wrote the screenplay with Ian Jeffers.
Here’s the story:
“After a plane goes down in Alaska, a man (Neeson) and his oil drilling team find themselves struggling to survive in the wild. The men come under attack by large, vicious, aggressive wolves who see the humans as intruders who must be killed.”
Okay, there’s a huge problem here. Wolves are not very aggressive, and more likely would try to stay away from the humans, unless they were attacked first, or found they could steal some of their food. Actually, if they the humans had food and weren’t threatening them, the wolves might approach them in a nonaggressive way to try to get some food. That’s how dogs evolved; they were members of the wolf familly who realized they could get humans to share food with them in exchange for cooperation. So this movie makes no sense, but will succeed, no doubt, in giving wolves a bad name.
Carnahan must be one of those directors who likes working with the same actors. Cooper and Neeson were both in Carnahan’s “The A-Team” this summer. This has no bearing on the quality of that film or this one.
All my negative feelings about this screenplay aside, it’s nice to see Neeson enjoying his late career renaissance as a badass action hero.
Yay! More bad press; that’s what wolves needed! O_o