Liam Neeson closed his deal in March to return as the highly skilled CIA officer in Taken 2, and his on-screen daughter Maggie Grace also signed on for the sequel.

In a recent interview producer Luc Besson revealed Famke Janssen would also be back, and said filming is scheduled to begin in October.

From Coming Soon:

Besson told us that Colombiana director Olivier Megaton has been using his time in Los Angeles to scout locations for the sequel to Taken, which will shoot there for a little bit, and the film itself will start production in October. He said that everyone is back for the sequel including Famke Janssen, who had a small role as Liam Neeson’s ex-wife in the first movie.

No story details have been revealed so we don’t know who gets ‘taken’ this time round, but earlier this year it was mentioned part of the movie would be shot in Istanbul, so some of the action will likely be set there.

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Famke Janssen, who is best known for playing Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men trilogy, has joined the cast of Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.

According to The Playlist Janssen will play the leader of the witches in the film, and will battle against Gemma Arterton (Gretel) and Jeremy Renner (Hansel).

The project is described as “a dark action movie that picks up with the fairy tale siblings years after the traumatic childhood incident has turned them into bounty hunters” which is a…different take on the German fairy tale.

Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow) is directing, and the aim is to begin shooting in early March as Renner will be needed on The Avengers set in May and Arterton will probably be filming Wrath of the Titans sometime soon, so there will be no room for delays.

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We know that Jean Grey has had her experiences with lakes in the past, but never with rivers. When Famke Janssen hasn’t got dual personalities or is killing everyone in sight, she is busy playing a high stakes pool shark, trying to raise $50,000 to gain custody of her son.

The trailer is now online for Turn The River. Janssen stars alongside Rip Torn and Chris Eigeman. It is already getting some buzz and it hasn’t even started its film festival rounds yet. It is great to see an actress like Famke, who has done big budget films like X-Men, doing smaller movies which show how good she is at what she does. Here’s the trailer:

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