Liam Neeson Chase Pic ‘The Mongoose’ Underway In Australia With Marisa Tomei, Ving Rhames & Michael Chiklis Joining Cast
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Liam Neeson action chase film The Mongoose is underway in Australia with Oscar winner Marisa Tomei, Mission Impossible star Ving Rhames, and Emmy winner Michael Chiklis (The Shield) joining the cast.
Oscar nominee Neeson (Schindler’s List) will star as Ryan “Fang” Flanagan, a war hero who, accused of a crime he didn’t commit and with nothing to lose, leads police on an epic televised cross-country car chase.
Tomei will play Tara, Fang’s ex-wife, who asks Fang for help when she finds herself in trouble. Rhames will play Tanker, Fang’s loyal right hand who was the second-in-command of Fang’s Special Forces squad when they were captured in Afghanistan.
Chiklis will play Pope, the violent and reckless head of the Texas Highway Patrol who is convinced of Fang’s guilt. Pic will be directed by Mark Vanselow, whose career as an action sequence director, action designer, stunt coordinator and stuntman includes two SAG award nominations for best stunt ensemble (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).
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