Liam Neeson to Plow Snow and Cocaine Gangsters In 'Hard Powder'

There was a time when you could count on action movies to have cheeky, playfully-on-the-nose titles. Jean-Claude Van Damme, in particular, was the king in this arena, with classics – yes, classics! – like Sudden Death (terrorists take over a hockey rink during the Stanley Cup finals), Double Impact (where JCVD plays his own twin brother), and Timecop (about a time traveling police officer).

But these days action movies have forgotten how to have fun with their titles. Everything is either a character’s name (John Wick, Jack Reacher, Jason Bourne) or a generic noun (The Accountant, Criminal, The Gunman). But one actor is still keeping their self-aware action movie title game strong. We are of course talking about Liam Neeson. Sure, Taken 1-3 may be generic, but he’s also got Non-Stop (stopping terrorists on a non-stop flight) and Run All Night (a hit man on the run all night) in the bag, and he’s about to add to the list what is perhaps the best action movie title in years: Hard Powder.

Yes, Hard Powder is all about snow, cocaine and vengeance. We wish it was about Liam Neeson running a ski resort that gets taken over by a cocaine cartel, but we’ll settle for what it’s actually about: a snowplow driver who seeks revenge on the drug kingpin who murders his son. We also wish a plot like that would reunite Neeson with his Non-Stop director Jaume Collet-Sera, but we’ll gladly accept its actual director Hans Petter Moland, who recently made the original, and great, crime thriller In Order of Disappearance this is based on.

Expect Hard Powder to hit theaters no earlier than 2018. In the meantime, we’ll get to see Neeson reteam with Collet-Serra on The Commuter, about an ordinary man who gets caught up on a conspiracy on his, you guessed it, commute home.

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