The Commuter
The first trailer has arrived forThe Commuter , the latest collaborationism between Liam Neeson and filmmaker Jaume Collet - Serra . Neeson and Collet - Serra have now worked on four movies together ( The Commuterincluded ) , starting with their Hitchcockian thrillerUnknownin 2011 . The player / managing director pair then reunite for another genre exercise in mystery / suspense withNon - Stopin 2014 , before joining forces on the gangster crime dramatic play / thrillerRun All Nightin 2015 and re - team yet again onThe Commuter , not too long thereafter .
Based on its premiss alone , The Commuterbegs comparability toNon - Stopin terms of Neeson and Collet - Serra ’s premature collaborations together - in the sense that both picture show revolve around a admirer ( played by Neeson ) who gets hitch up in an elaborate confederacy , trapped aboard a move fomite . WhereasNon - Stopfeatures Neeson as an air marshal who must unknot a murder mystery in the middle of a long flight of stairs , The Commuterhas Neeson playing an ordinary businessman whose life is turned upside - down during his usual commute to New York one twenty-four hour period , when he strikes up a conversation with a not - so - friendly unknown .
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Vera Farmiga - who antecedently asterisk in Collet - Serra ’s 2009 repulsion / thrillerOrphan- play said stranger who crosses paths with Neeson in the movie , as say lagger forThe Commuterillustrates . The house trailer does n’t refine too much on what happens from there , however , though it ’s clear that Farmiga ’s fictional character is n’t what she seems at a passing coup d’oeil and soon gets Neeson caught up in a life-threatening cat and computer mouse game that postulate some illicit money aboard the train and an unknown rider - whom ( based on the footage shown here ) Neeson ’s protagonist finds himself being blackmail into killing .
Collet - Serra , speaking toEW , explicate what it was aboutThe Commuterscript written by Philip de Blasi and Byron Willinger ( a pair of relative newcomers ) that attracted both Neeson and him to the project :
“ We just like to tell the same news report . manifestly , he does other types of moving-picture show , and I do other types of motion picture as well . But we really like to have a flick once in a while where we just do what we like . And what we wish is a very tight thriller . Something Hitchcockian and tight - pace , with dependable actors in it and good dialogue and an interesting premiss . It ’s sort of like a little puzzle for the audience to solve . He enjoys those variety of movies , I enjoy those kinds of pic , and we relish wee-wee them together . ”
Between his old collaboration with Neeson and films such as the Blake Lively - led 2016 " sharkploitation " thrillerThe Shallows , Collet - Serra has show a right knack for making entertainingly pulpy and stylish B - movie flush rides . The Commuterseems like another chip off the same block for the theater director and Neeson too - meaning that those moviegoers who have enjoyed the thespian / filmmaker ’s previous exploit together might desire to give their latest film a look when it hits theaters .
Neeson , for his part , has indicated thatThe Commutermight be one of his final action / thriller ( if notthelast one ) and will be shifting his nidus to more striking roles in the hereafter , starting with his performance as veridical - living whistleblower Mark Felt in this downfall ’s biopic , Mark Felt : The human Who Brought Down the White House . Collet - Serra is also going to be trying his manus at something new with his next directorial effort , in the frame of Disney ’s Dwayne Johnson - headline , theme park drive - turn movie adventure , Jungle Cruise . Of naturally , there ’s nothing to prevent Neeson and Collet - Serra from reunite yet again down the route , should another action / thriller screenplay snap up their care afterThe commuter train .
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Source : EW
