Taken (franchise)
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File:Taken trilogy DVD cover.jpg
The DVD cover for the 3-film box set
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Directed by | Pierre Morel (1) Olivier Megaton (2-3) |
Produced by | Luc Besson |
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Music by | Nathaniel Méchaly |
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Release dates
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2008–2014 |
Running time
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294 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | English |
Budget | $118,000,000 |
Box office | $929,451,015 |
Taken is a series of English-language French action films, beginning with Taken in 2008, created by producer Luc Besson and American screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. The dialogue of all three films is primarily English, and all three feature Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills. The first film received mixed reviews from critics but a positive response from audiences with commercial success, the series grossed a combined $929,451,015 worldwide.
The series has also experienced diminishing critical reception with each successive film.
A reboot television series based on a similar storyline and starring Clive Standen and Jennifer Beals premiered in February 2017.
Contents
Films
Taken (2008)
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A retired CIA operative named Bryan Mills crosses the globe to rescue his 17-year-old daughter after she is kidnapped by a group of Albanian smugglers while traveling in France.
Taken 2 (2012)
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Mafia boss and terrorist Murad, the father of Marko, whom Bryan had killed by electrocution in the first film of the trilogy, plans to capture Bryan, who is vacationing with his family in Istanbul, and avenge his son's death.
Taken 3 (2014)
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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 for whom he formerly worked.
Television
Taken (2017–2018)
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In September 2015, NBC ordered a 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]
Cast and crew
Cast
Characters | Films | Television series | |||
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Taken | Taken 2 | Taken 3 | Taken | ||
Season 1 | Season 2 | ||||
2008 | 2012 | 2014 | 2017 | 2018 | |
Bryan Mills | Liam Neeson | Clive Standen | |||
Kimberly "Kim" Mills | Maggie Grace | ||||
Lenore "Lenny" Mills-St. John | Famke Janssen | ||||
Sam Scott Gilroy | Leland Orser | Michael Irby | |||
Mark Rem Casey | Jon Gries | James Landry Hebert | |||
Bernie Dave Harris | David Warshofsky | D. B. Sweeney | David Warshofsky | Jose Pablo Cantillo | |
Jean-Claude Pitrel | Olivier Rabourdin | ||||
Marko Hoxha | Arben Bajraktaraj | Arben BajraktarajP | |||
Stuart St. John | Xander Berkeley | Dougray Scott | |||
Sheerah | Holly Valance | ||||
Amanda | Katie Cassidy | ||||
Patrice Saint-Clair | Gérard Watkins | ||||
Murad Hoxha | Rade Šerbedžija | ||||
Jamie Conrad | 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 | ||||
Christina Hart | Jennifer Beals | ||||
Asha Flynn | Brooklyn Sudano | ||||
Cali Mills | Celeste Desjardins | Celeste DesjardinsP | |||
John | Gaius Charles | ||||
Becca Vlasik | Monique Gabriela Curnen | ||||
Kilroy | Adam Goldberg | ||||
Santana | Jessica Camacho |
Crew
Crew | Film | ||
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Taken | Taken 2 | Taken 3 | |
Director | Pierre Morel | Olivier Megaton | |
Writer | Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen |
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Producer | Luc Besson | ||
Music | Nathaniel Méchaly | ||
Distributor | EuropaCorp (France) 20th Century Fox (US) |
Reception
Box office performance
Film | Release date | Box office gross | Box office ranking | Budget | Reference(s) | |||
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United States | North America | Other territories | Worldwide | All time North America | All time worldwide | |||
Taken (2008) | January 30, 2009 | $145,000,989 | $81,829,579 | $226,830,568 | #292 | #500 | $25,000,000 | [3] |
Taken 2 (2012) | October 5, 2012 | $139,854,287 | $236,287,019 | $376,141,306 | #318 | #219 | $45,000,000 | [4] |
Taken 3 (2014) | January 9, 2015 | $89,256,424 | $237,222,717 | $326,479,141 | #697 | #357 | $48,000,000 | [5][6] |
Total | $374,111,700 | $555,339,315 | $929,451,015 | $118,000,000 | [7] |
Critical and public response
Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | CinemaScore |
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Taken (2008) | 58% (170 reviews)[8] | 50 (31 reviews)[9] | A-[10] |
Taken 2 (2012) | 22% (167 reviews)[11] | 45 (35 reviews)[12] | B+[10] |
Taken 3 (2014) | 12% (115 reviews)[13] | 26 (30 reviews)[14] | B+[10] |
In popular culture
- On January 15, 2015, to promote the American release of Taken 3, Liam Neeson starred in a short film on the show entitled Taken 4: A-Paco-Lypse on American talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!; the short revolved around Bryan Mills helping his old friend Guillermo rescue his kidnapped dog, Paco from "Kimmel".[15]
- In 2017, Bryan Mills was featured in the fifth season of the web television series The Most Popular Girls in School, in which he is searching France for his daughter Kim, after she was kidnapped by a rival group of French models while representing the United States as a model herself. Liam Neeson reprises his role as Mills.
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