After crafting perhaps the best actioner in his recent Taken-era career with Non-Stop, Liam Neeson is returning this fall for another promising entry in the genre, one that looks a little more serious. Coming from director Scott Frank, who last gave us the overlooked thriller The Lookout, A Walk Among the Tombstones is based on the book from Lawrence Block and the first trailer has landed today.
Neeson leads as an ex-NYPD cop named Matt Scudder who is now an unlicensed private investigator after a gig goes bad. The story focuses on him helping a heroin trafficker who tracks down the men that murdered his wife. As a major fan of Frank’s debut, hopefully the same twisty fun is in store here and one can check out the trailer and poster below for the film also starring Dan Stevens, David Harbour, and Boyd Holbrook.
Based on Lawrence Block’s bestselling series of mystery novels, A Walk among the Tombstones stars Liam Neeson as Matt Scudder, an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder reluctantly agrees to help a heroin trafficker (Dan Stevens) hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime…nor will it be the last. Blurring the lines between right and wrong, Scudder races to track the deviants through the backstreets of New York City before they kill again. Written and directed by Scott Frank (The Lookout), A Walk among the Tombstones is produced by Jersey Films’ Danny DeVito, Double Feature Films’ Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher, Exclusive Media’s Tobin Armbrust and Cross Creek Pictures’ Brian Oliver. Universal will distribute the film in North America.
A Walk Among the Tombstones opens on September 19th.