Taken Trilogy
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| Produced by | Luc Besson |
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| Starring | Liam Neeson Maggie Grace Famke Janssen Leland Orser Jon Gries David Warshofsky |
| Music by | Nathaniel Méchaly |
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Production
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (US) EuropaCorp (France) |
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Release dates
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2008 – 2015 |
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Running time
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294 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $118 million |
| Box office | $928.7 million |
The Taken Trilogy is a series of English-language French action films beginning with Taken in 2008. All three films feature Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills. A prequel television series starring Clive Standen as Bryan Mills is in development.
Contents
Films
Taken (2008)
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A retired CIA operative named Bryan Mills crosses the globe to rescue his 17-year-old daughter after she is kidnapped by human traffickers and sold into sexual slavery while traveling in France.
Taken 2 (2012)
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Murad, the mob boss of the gang of human traffickers and father of Marko, whom Bryan had killed by electrocution, plans to capture Bryan, who is vacationing with his family in Turkey, and avenge his son's death.
Taken 3 (2015)
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Bryan has been framed for the murder of his ex-wife, Lenore. He then sets out to clear his name by going after the real killers, while also eluding capture from U.S. authorities that he formerly worked for.
Television series
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In September 2015, NBC ordered a prequel Taken television series depicting a young Bryan Mills.[1] In February 2016, Vikings actor Clive Standen was announced to play the young Bryan Mills, with Alex Carey as the showrunner.[2]
Characters and cast
| Characters | Films | Television series | |||
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| Taken (2008) |
Taken 2 (2012) |
Taken 3 (2015) |
Taken (2016) |
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| Bryan Mills | Liam Neeson | Clive Standen | |||
| Kim Mills | Maggie Grace | TBA | |||
| Lenore "Lenny" Mills-St. John | Famke Janssen | TBA | |||
| Sam Gilroy | Leland Orser | Michael Irby | |||
| Mark Casey | Jon Gries | James Landry Hebert | |||
| Bernie Harris | David Warshofsky | D. B. Sweeney | David Warshofsky | Jose Pablo Cantillo | |
| Jean-Claude Pitrel | Olivier Rabourdin | ||||
| Stuart St. John | Xander Berkeley | Dougray Scott | TBA | ||
| Sheerah | Holly Valance | ||||
| Amanda | Katie Cassidy | ||||
| Marko Hoxha | Arben Bajraktaraj | (photograph) | |||
| Patrice Saint-Clair | Gérard Watkins | ||||
| Murad Hoxha | Rade Šerbedžija | ||||
| Jamie | Luke Grimes | ||||
| Inspector Durmaz | Kevork Malikyan | ||||
| Inspector Franck Dotzler | Forest Whitaker | ||||
| Oleg Malankov | Sam Spruell | ||||
| Jimmy | Jonny Weston | ||||
| Detective Smith | Dylan Bruno | ||||
| Detective Garcia | Don Harvey | ||||
| Detective Johnson | Al Sapienza | ||||
Crew and other
| Crew/Detail | Film | ||
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| Taken | Taken 2 | Taken 3 | |
| Director | Pierre Morel | Olivier Megaton | |
| Writer | Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen |
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| Music | Nathaniel Méchaly | ||
| MPAA rating | PG-13 | ||
| BBFC rating | 15 | 12A | |
| Running time | 93 minutes | 91 minutes | 108 minutes |
| Distributor | EuropaCorp (France) 20th Century Fox (US) |
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Reception
Box office performance
| Film | Release date | Box office gross | Box office ranking | Budget | Reference(s) | ||||
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Worldwide | All time North America |
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| Taken | 27 February 2008 | 30 January 2009 | $145,000,989 | $81,829,579 | $226,830,568 | #292 | #500 | $25,000,000 | [3] |
| Taken 2 | 7 September 2012 | 5 October 2012 | $139,854,287 | $236,287,019 | $376,141,306 | #318 | #219 | $45,000,000 | [4] |
| Taken 3 | 16 December 2014 | 9 January 2015 | $89,256,424 | $237,222,717 | $326,479,141 | #697 | #357 | $48,000,000 | [5][6] |
| Total | $373,827,507 | $555,339,315 | $929,451,015 | $118,000,000 | [7] | ||||
| Average | $124,703,900 | $173,000,000 | $309,800,000 | ||||||
Critical and public response
| Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | CinemaScore |
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| Taken | 58% (167 reviews)[8] | 50 (31 critics)[9] | A-[10] |
| Taken 2 | 21% (163 reviews)[11] | 45 (35 critics)[12] | B+[10] |
| Taken 3 | 9% (95 reviews)[13] | 26 (30 critics)[14] | B+[10] |
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