Taken Trilogy

Taken
The DVD cover for the 3-film box set
Directed by	Pierre Morel (1) Olivier Megaton (2–3)
Produced by	Luc Besson
Screenplay by	Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen
Starring	Liam Neeson Maggie Grace Famke Janssen Leland Orser Jon Gries David Warshofsky
Music by	Nathaniel Méchaly
Cinematography	Michel Abramowicz (1) Romain Lacourbas (2) Eric Kress (3)
Edited by	Frédéric Thoraval (1) Camille Delamarre Vincent Tabaillon (2) Audrey Simonaud Nicolas Trembasiewicz (3)
Production company	EuropaCorp Canal+ M6 Films
Distributed by	20th Century Fox (US) EuropaCorp (France)
Release dates	2008 – 2015
Running time	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.

Films

Taken (2008)

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)

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)

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.

TV series

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
	Taken (2008)	Taken 2 (2012)	Taken 3 (2015)	Taken (2016)
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
	Taken	Taken 2	Taken 3
Director	Pierre Morel	Olivier Megaton
Writer	Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen
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)

Reception

Box office performance

Film	Release date		Box office gross			Box office ranking		Budget	Reference(s)
	Other territories	United States	North America	Other territories	Worldwide	All time North America	All time worldwide
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
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]

References

1. Andreeva, Nellie (September 17, 2015). "‘Taken’ Prequel TV Series Ordered By NBC With Luc Besson Producing". Deadline.com. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
2. Ausiello, Michael (February 22, 2016). "Clive Standen Joins NBC's Taken Series". TVLine. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
3. "Taken (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
4. "Taken 2 (2012)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
5. "Taken 3 (2015)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
6. Lang, Brent (January 7, 2015). "Box Office: Liam Neeson and ‘Taken 3′ to Unseat ‘The Hobbit’". Variety. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
7. "Taken Franchise". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
8. "Taken (2009)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
9. "Taken (2009): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
10. "CinemaScore". CinemaScore. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
11. "Taken 2 (2012)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
12. "Taken 2 (2012): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
13. "Taken 3 (2015)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
14. "Taken 3 (2015): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved January 9, 2015.