Before he helmed the original spiderman trilogy, sam raimi created his own twisted superhero with liam neeson in darkman. Liam neeson has come under fire from animal rights group peta after claiming he ate wolf meat to prepare for his role in the action thriller the grey. Mar, 2018 despite overwhelming feedback from test audiences that they wanted a sick deathmatch between bryan mills and an angry wolf to be the ending of the movie instead of a depressing shitshow where its revealed the main characters wife is dying of a terminal illness something thats made all the more depressing when you realise liam neeson. Since he appeared in taken and proved to the world that his right hook can make jawbones an endangered species, liam neeson has found himself being cast in a number of roles requiring him to dole out haymaker after haymaker to anyone who gets in his goddamn way.
Hence why people are already excited about his latest starring vehicle the wilderness survival thriller, the grey which pits the oscarnominated actor against his most vicious foes yet. In alaska, an oil drilling team struggle to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wild. The 10 best liam neeson movies, ranked cinemablend. The grey full trailer has more liam neeson, more wolves to. The grey was one of them films that i bought thinking it would be a survivalist movie, but this was much more than that with its cast of unknowns who you come to know throughout the film.
The grey is usually described as the movie about liam neeson fighting wolves, which is misleading, because it implies that the grey is a wilderness survival yarn, which it isnt. Theres no easier way to get a movie made in hollywood than to walk into a room full of studio executives and say these 16 magic words. Set in the snowy wilds of alaska, joe carnahans uniquely morose thriller is unequivocally about death and dying. We are confused like neeson s character and there are times we dont know if he will succeed. In those trailers, the grey is an adventure story, and based on the films weve seen liam neeson do in the past few years, it sells the movie as an action vehicle for him. Liam neeson makes some monumentally stupid decisions in the story and gets everybody including himself killed. It is based on the short story ghost walker by ian mackenzie jeffers, who also cowrote the screenplay with carnahan. The grey movie endings explained 2011 joe carnahan, liam neeson.
Just before the fur flies, director joe carnahan cuts to. This wasnt an action movie about fighting wolves, it was about men choosing how they would meet their end. The teaser trailer for the grey, joe carnahans man vs. After their plane crashes in alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step. Liam neeson takes on wolves in new the grey trailer. Empire magazine ranked neeson among both the 100 sexiest stars in film history and the top 100 movie stars. Liam neeson throws his film career to the wolves forget human traffickers and spies this movie trailer sees the hollywood pugilist tackling assailants of the fourlegged variety. John, however, is not an oil worker, but instead a hunter who shoots the wolves. The nominal star of the grey, americas topgrossing film, is liam neeson. Liam neeson s latecareer revival as a grizzled cinematic badass. The grey 2012 shots from alternate fight ending scene.
Take a look at what the final fight between liam neeson and the wolf in the grey might have looked like in new revealed storyboard for the film. On his last day on the job, ottway writes a letter to his wife ana anne openshaw. I wanted to ensure i said fictional because i do like liam, the plane crash was really great, but downfall is the behavior of the wolves. The grey its cheap the way this movie wants to be both a liam neeson quit taking my stuff movie and an existential thriller about survival.
The story focuses on the liam neeson character, a taciturn and largely mysterious guy going through a depression. In short, unknown is a fairly decent mystery thriller. The wolves are really just serve as a metaphor for the beast inside of us which threatens to tear us apart. Liam neeson shows maneating wolves a thing or two in. In the grey, liam neeson leads an unruly group of oilrig roughnecks when their plane crashes into the remote alaskan wilderness. Aside from the fact that they just crash landed in the middle of a freezing wilderness, they are also harassed by a pack of wolves who seem to be less than welcoming right from the start. Hes making a living up in alaska at a large oil drilling site, patrolling the perimeter shooting wolves who stray too close looking for easy pickings. Liam neesonstarring, james darcydirected made in italy. With liam neeson, dermot mulroney, frank grillo, dallas roberts. The grey 2011 the grey is usually described as the movie about liam neeson fighting wolves, which is misleading, because it implies that the grey is a wilderness survival yarn, which it isnt. Apr 23, 2019 the story focuses on the liam neeson character, a taciturn and largely mysterious guy going through a depression.
Liam neeson is an irish actor, who rose to prominence with his acclaimed starring role in steven spielberg s 1993 oscar winner schindlers list. Two straight hours of liam neeson fighting wild animals. Apr 25, 2017 liam neeson has been acting for almost 40 years and has been credited in 99 projects for his acting skills. You never see the moment where ottway runs towards the wolves, fists up, ready to fight. Beast, with liam neeson in the lead a hardy security expert leads the survivors of a plane crash through the alaskan wilderness in a running fight against. Liam john neeson obe born 7 june 1952 is an actor from northern ireland. The movie portrays wolves as hideous killing machines instead of beautiful and endangered apex predators. Liam neeson talks frigid temperatures and wolves in the grey. The grey is usually described as the movie about liam neeson fighting wolves, which is misleading, because it implies that the grey is a. Liam neeson s new film has provoked protest from animal rights campaigners over claims about the treatment of wolves but while some were reluctant, neeson, 59, revealed that he went up. The real stars are the hungry wolves that pursue him and his fellow planecrash survivors through alaskas pristine wilderness. Call to boycott liam neeson after he admits he ate wolf. The grey is about an oil drilling team stranded in the middle of alaskan wilderness after their plane crashes.
Nell is a 1994 american drama film directed by michael apted from a screenplay written by william nicholson. The grey 2012 movie teaser trailer hd liam neeson youtube. Seven plane crash survivors fight for their lives in the harsh environment of alaska while being hunted by cousins of the werewolves from twilight. Liam neeson shows maneating wolves a thing or two in the grey. This movie came out at kinda of a critical point as well, when we were trying to get people to not hunt wolves and this demonizes them even further. By jared rasic liam neeson, the actor best known for playing thoughtful, sometimes heroic men, has somehow managed in his late 50s, no less to reinvent himself as a steelyeyed action star in the vein of clint eastwood or the late charles bronson. John ottway liam neeson works in alaska killing the wolves that threaten an oil drilling team. Mobster and hit man jimmy conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie. John ottway liam neeson is a marksman for an oil company in alaska, killing grey wolves that.
Wild wolves are afraid of humans and usually run away rather than be near people. It was pretty clear from the first few minutes of the grey that it was going to be a more contemplative film than the liam neeson punches the crap out of wolves movie that the above picture, and the trailers, would have us believe. But its not the dangerous weather that poses the biggest threat to these men, its a pack of wolves that are portrayed as bloodthirsty, vicious creatures. The grey is not really about liam neeson battling wolves. Theres footage of liam neeson fighting a wolf well never. Jan 26, 2012 joe carnahans the grey open road films provides everything you could reasonably want from a january release about liam neeson fighting wolves. A couple months ago, we got our first glimpse of liam neeson taking on a pack of hungry wolves in the grey. Liam neeson faces down wolves, contemplates god in the grey liam neeson, star of the grey, talks about filming in an unforgiving location, and what interested him in director joe carnahans man vs. Episode i the phantom menace, taken, michael collins, les miserables, batman begins, kinsey, clash of the titans. The grey full trailer has more liam neeson, more wolves to be. He has been nominated for a number of awards, including an academy award for best actor, a bafta award for best actor in a leading role, and three golden globe awards for best actor in a motion picture drama.
Dec 02, 2011 the grey full trailer has more liam neeson, more wolves to be punched. Released in the united states on january 27, 2012, the film received praise. Liam neeson s character is the only one who seems to know what hes doing throughout the film and its his performance that drives the story. Liam neeson faces down wolves, contemplates god in the. Liam neeson is one of the uncontested badasses of the big screen. Jan 27, 2012 liam neeson battles fictional wolves in the grey. In the film, neeson plays peyton westlake, a kindly scientist who is. The final postcredit shot is of neeson and the wolf lying b.
Joe carnahans the grey open road films provides everything you could reasonably want from a january release about liam neeson fighting wolves. The grey is an appropriate title for a bland movie that doesnt give liam neeson much to rage against, and hes an actor whos at his best when raging. By sonia horon, global animal the grey is about an oil drilling team stranded in the middle of alaskan wilderness after their plane crashes. Feb 08, 2018 the film met with a lot conversation on release, topics mostly focused on the ending, which many found all too cut short, the trailers hinting at something the movie ultimately didnt deliver, that being an actionoriented survival film with liam neeson smacking wolves right in the face. Jan 27, 2012 theres no easier way to get a movie made in hollywood than to walk into a room full of studio executives and say these 16 magic words. Liam neeson stars as john ottway, a man who works at an oil drilling platform out in alaska. The grey is a 2011 survival film cowritten, produced and directed by joe carnahan and starring liam neeson, frank grillo and dermot mulroney. Liam neesons latecareer revival as a grizzled cinematic badass continues unabated. John ottway liam neeson is a marksman for an oil company in alaska, killing grey wolves that threaten the drillers. The film starts out with ottway the wolf killer played by neeson writing a note to his dead or at least ill wife and reciting a poem written by his. Which is why some audiences were more than a little disappointed when the grey, a film in which neeson has to fend off a pack of wolves with his bare hands, didnt end with a montage of the ageing actor delivering endless elbow drops tolupine jugulars.
Liam neeson schindlers list, taken stars as the unlikely hero ottway in this undeniably suspenseful and powerful survival adventure. To say that he has undeniable charisma is certainly accurate, but it is a charisma composed as much of impressive talent as of brokennosed. This time, neeson is back, fighting to protect his crew from the blizzardlike elements and trying to find a way to get back to his wife. Liam neeson has been acting for almost 40 years and has been credited in 99 projects for his acting skills. The movie s plot is focus and it is unique for it is unpredictable.
The grey has liam neeson battling more than wolves the. In the end, though, its on this world that the grey has its eyes. In addition to neeson the movie stars dermot mulroney. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt before their time runs out. Actor liam neeson from taken and unknown stars in new movie, the grey. The best rated item with liam neeson on netflix is five minutes of heaven and appeared on screen in 2009. They were selling an action movie when they really made an intensely somber. The grey full trailer has more liam neeson, more wolves to be punched. Liam neeson throws his film career to the wolves forget human traffickers and spies this movie trailer sees the hollywood pugilist tackling assailants of the fourlegged. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have. Liam neeson on netflix this is a regularly updated list with movies, series and documentaries with liam neeson on netflix.
The film stars jodie foster who also produced in the titular role. He has since starred in a number of other successful films, including star wars. Liam neesons wolf stew claims land the grey in hot. There are multiple twists and unlike most mystery thrillers, it took me more than half through the film to figure it all out. Liam neeson, natasha richardson, richard libertini, and nick searcy are featured in supporting roles. Standing a burly 64, liam neeson was once described by a theatre critic as a towering sequoia of sex. You never see the moment where ottway runs towards the wolves. On his last day on the job, he sees a driller being pursued by a wolf and shoots it, listening to the wolf s final breath.
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