Since changing into a breakout motion star with 2008’s Taken, Liam Neeson has starred in motion motion pictures set on planes and on trains. So naturally, now it’s time for cars. In Retribution, Neeson performs an funding banker who, you guessed it, has to avoid wasting his household from a risk. And in typical Neeson style, it really seems to be like a whole lot of enjoyable. Retribution is about for launch in theaters on Aug. 25.

This newest family-saving thriller has fund supervisor Matt Turner (Neeson) and his youngsters being held hostage by an nameless caller who hooked a bomb as much as Turner’s automotive, which he says he’ll detonate if Turner fails to observe directions, or brings the automotive to an unsanctioned cease. With that premise in place, the trailer exhibits us all types of automotive maneuvers, crimson herrings, and large explosions — none of that are Neeson or his youngsters really blowing up, presumably.

Motion-movie followers might already be pondering that this sounds a just like the premise of Velocity, the place a bus rigged with bombs will explode if Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock don’t preserve it going above 50 MPH always. The true twist, nevertheless, is that that is really a remake of a Spanish film referred to as El Desconocido (although its English title was additionally Retribution). Much more apparently, that is really the third remake the film has obtained after the German model, Don’t. Get. Out!, and the South Korean model, Onerous Goal. Maybe much more surprisingly, Neeson was first set to star on this American remake in 2017, however the undertaking was delayed.

Retribution is directed by Nimród Antal (Predators), and written by Andrew Baldwin (Invasion), Ward Parry (The Shattering), and Christopher Salmanpour (FBI: Most Wished), from the script of the unique Spanish movie, which was written by Alberto Marini. Together with Neeson, the movie additionally stars Jack Champion (Avatar: The Means of Water), Matthew Modine (Stranger Issues), and Arian Moayed (Succession).