From Paris With Love Movie Trailer

From Paris With Love Movie Trailer

By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 16, 2009 4:25 pm EST

I think the Europacorp action factory, which has produced everything from the original Taxi and its sequels through to the District 13 films, and typically with a script at least co-written by Luc Besson, is pretty dependable in delivering nice, solid b-movie style action shenanigans. Hopefully From Paris With Love will be no different. Besson is here credited as a co-writer alongside Adi Hasak, previously credited with George P. Cosmatos’ Shadow Conspiracy.

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Rhys Meyers is an unusual pick for this kind of thing, but I would have said the same about Liam Neeson before enjoying his running and jumping in Taken fully. Travolta seems very well employed here, in a role that plays to his strengths superbly. I’m hoping he has a little dance sequence too, as a cherry on the cheesecake.

Morel’s next picture looks to be his first studio engagement, taking on Pursuit for Universal. Peter reported on that one in July, telling us:

Beyond that, he’s also working on a fairly secret action film to be set in Tokyo and the inevitable Taken sequel. Bring ’em on.

Pursuit is an action thriller is based on the early career on conflict photographer Jason Howe, who fell in love with a woman while on assignment in Columbia, only to later discover that she is an assassin for right-wing death squads. The studio is searching for a screenwriter for the project.