The legend that is Liam Neeson is a guest on this week’s Empire Podcast (listen here or press play on the SoundCloud file below), and dropped an interesting tidbit about an upcoming project. “I’ve just signed up to do a film called Suspension, hanging from a bridge in New York – the George Washington Bridge,” Neeson told us.
That was pretty much that: apart from a declaration that, since he gets “dizzy on a thick carpet”, he wouldn’t be doing all his own stunts (“It’s not that I want to do a Tom Cruise thing. Tom loves all that stuff. I can’t do that.”), Neeson said nothing else about the project, which has yet to be officially announced.
So, what is Suspension? Well, a little bit of digging around suggests that it’s an unmade Joss Whedon script. Sold on spec in 1993 for $1 million, it’s a Die Hard-alike in which terrorists attack the George Washington Bridge, only for an ex-con called Harry Monk to gum up their works and then some. Neeson, we’d imagine, would play Monk, who teams up with the cops to deliver some justice from a great height.
But apart from that, not much else is known at this point in time, with no director, studio or release date in place (at least publicly). We don’t even know if this is the Whedon script, but the fact that the Neeson movie takes place on the George Washington Bridge seems a coincidence too far. So, Whedonites, get excited – as well as Avengers: Age Of Ultron, looks like you’ve got something else to look forward to over the next year or so.
As for Neeson, this seems to be right up his street. The Northern Irish icon is drawn to the high-concept, and concepts don’t get much higher than this. He’s just started shooting his performance-capture work on Juan Antonio Bayona’s A Monster Calls and has Martin Scorsese’s Silence lined up as well, so we’re not sure when he’ll squeeze in Suspension. But if it is a Whedon script, we hope he does, and soon.
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