Cape Town - Liam Neeson is en route to South Africa, where he will film part of his new movie, the spy thriller A Willing Patriot, later this year.
First re-ported in Variety earlier this week, the Irish star is set to play a CIA agent chasing the clock to track down a terrorist planning an imminent attack.
Martin Zandvliet will direct.
Open Road Films, which has secured the film’s US distribution rights, announced this week that it would be shot on location in South Africa, Morocco and Tunisia, with a planned worldwide release next year.
A start date for filming has yet to be announced.
The production will be financed and produced by MadRiver Pictures, along with Film 360, Hollywood Gang and Jason Keller.
Open Road Films previously teamed up with Neeson for the movie The Grey, an adventure thriller about oil workers stranded in Alaska.
“Working with Liam Neeson on The Grey was a fantastic experience, and a success in every way,” Tom Ortenberg, chief executive of Open Road Films, said in a media release.
“A Willing Patriot, like The Grey, is a top-notch character-driven film.”
Open Road said the focus of the film would be an “elaborate cat-and-mouse game” between the CIA agent and the “sinister terrorist”.
Weekend Argus