According to Deadline, Neeson is being sought to star in Tell No One, an adaptation of Harlan Coben's terrific mystery novel. Guillaume Canet directed a French version a few years ago that was met with great acclaim, and Ben Affleck had been set to helm the American one until he got too busy with Gone Girl and Batman v Superman. Gavin O'Connor (Warrior) was the latest eying the director's chair, with Chris Terrio (Argo) adapting the book which follows a man whose wife disappears and is presumed to have been murdered by a serial killer. Years later evidence emerges that she may actually be alive. Neeson would presumably take the lead role and, while this is a movie that doesn't necessarily need to be made, he'd be a solid choice for it as it gives him something new to do. This one's still a little ways off as Universal wants Terrio to put a little more work into the script.
Not quite as new as the other project Neeson is working on, though. Neeson told The Independent that he is working on a new movie with fellow Irishman and U2 frontman, Bono. You know him, right? If you have ITunes you have his music in your library whether you like it or not. Anyway, the project sounds pretty interesting, if a little bit like The Commitments. It follows the explosion of Irish show bands in the 1970s that traveled around playing covers from every genre. Neeson sounds pretty excited about it, although the project has been developing for quite awhile...
Neeson: “[Bono and I] chat, or with him a lot of the time I just listen. He’s a wonderful man. He’s got an idea for a script which we’ve been working on for the past six years."
That better be one Hell of a script. So who knows if this will ever happen, but if it does Apple will download that shit to your Kindle without any warning so just be aware.
