A hell of a cast is set to join Liam Neeson in the currently filming thriller “Marlowe” which sees the “Taken” star step into the shoes of author Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective character Philip Marlowe.
The film however isn’t adapting a famed Chandler work like “The Big Sleep,” rather it will adapt John Banville’s novel “The Black-Eyed Blonde” which follows the tough as nails private detective in the early 1950s where he is as restless and lonely as ever.
Things change when a beautiful blonde heiress client comes in and asks Marlowe to find her ex-lover. He soon learns the disappearance is part of a bigger mystery that sees him drawn into the crossfire of a legendary Hollywood actress and her subversive, ambitious daughter.
Joining Neeson are the likes of Francois Arnaud, Daniela Melchior, Diana Kruger, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alan Cumming, Danny Huston, Ian Hart and Colm Meaney.
Oscar-winner Neil Jordan (“The Crying Game,” “Byzantium”) is directing from a script by William Monahan (“Kingdom of Heaven,” “The Departed”). Alan Moloney, Gary Levinsohn, Mark Fasano, and Billy Hines are producing the film which is now in production in Ireland and Spain.
Source: Deadline
