Liam Neeson has grown a reputation for making hard man movies in the last few years, but there’s certainly a lot more to him than that. Now Screen Daily reports that he is set to star in Juan Antonio Bayona’s fantasy, A Monster Calls.
Felicity Jones has also signed up for the film
Patrick Ness has written the script based on his children’s fantasy novel which follows thirteen-year-old Conor O’Malley. He has to deal with his mother’s sickness, school bullies and a yew tree in his backyard that turns into a monster and tells him strange stories. However the monster/trees’ stories give him the tools to come to terms with the truths of life.
Neeson will be the monster (or at least its voice). A October 2016 release has already been set.
After years in development, Martin Scorsese is finally moving forward on Silence, with Andrew Garfield and Ken Watanabe already signed up to star. Now Liam Neeson has come onboard, according to 
If Liam Neeson had any need to top up his pension pot, he must have been very happy to have been cast in Taken, which has turned into an opportunity for him to get increasingly large paycheques (reportedly $20 million for Taken 3) just to run around being very angry and killing people – with not much else required on the acting front.
