David Farnor | On 29, Jun 2023

Liam Neeson (Taken) is heading back to Sky Cinema for new thriller Retribution.

From the producers of Non-Stop and The Commuter, the film follows Matt Turner (Liam Neeson), a Berlin-based American businessman juggling a booming financial career with family responsibility. Driving his kids to school one morning, Matt receives a phone call from a mysterious voice: there’s a bomb under his seat that will detonate unless he completes a specific series of tasks, and fast. Trapped in their car in a high-speed chase across the city, Matt must follow the stranger’s increasingly dangerous instructions in a race against time to protect his family and solve the mystery that plays out over the course of one day. 

Directed by Nimród Antal, written by Alberto Marini, with a screenplay by Christopher Salmanpour, Retribution is and based on the film El Desconocido.  Producers include Andrew Rona, Alex Heineman and Jaume Collet-Serra Juan Sola. The film is produced by STUDIOCANAL, The Picture Company and Ombra Films in coproduction with TF1 Films Production Studio Babelsberg with the participation of Canal+, Cine+, TF1, and TMC. 

On screen, Neeson will be joined by Noma Dumezweni (The Little Mermaid), Lilly Aspell (Wonder Woman: 1984), Jack Champion (Avatar: The Way of Water), Embeth Davidtz (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and Matthew Modine (Stranger Things). You can see them in action this autumn, when the film is released on Sky Cinema, NOW and in cinemas.

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