Liam Neeson is having quite a year. He’s had the surprising success of Taken to soar on in January, and the heartbreaking tragedy of losing wife Natasha Richardson in a skiing accident a few months later. You can’t blame him for wanting to stay busy, and busy is exactly what he’s been.

Adding on to his already busy slate, Neeson has now signed on to star in Unknown White Male, the thriller that will be directed by Orphan’s Jaume Collet-Serra and written by Karl Gajdusek, one of the writers on the short-lived but excellent television series Dead Like Me. The story follows a doctor who, while visiting Berlin with his wife, is in a car accident that leaves him in a coma. When he finally awakens, he finds a doppelganger has taken his place, a strange man  he has never met but who seems to have sinister intentions (that’s vague, isn’t it?). The doctor sets off on a frantic search to uncover his replacement’s identity, discover the truth, and get his life back.

More of Neeson running around, kicking ass and taking names? Sold! On the coattails of the box office smash that was Taken, Neeson has jumped on to a flurry of projects. He’s currently playing Zeus in Louis Leterrier’s Clash of the Titans remake and has The A-Team up next to play Hannibal Smith. It’s kind of awesome that Neeson seems to have shed his gentle on-screen persona and has now taken on a decidedly more bad-ass turn in his recent roles.

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