Well, if you needed a Snake Plissken to save your daughter, and Snake isn’t available, I guess you could do worst than getting Guy Pearce of “Memento” fame to do the work. That’s basically the premise of “Lockout”, which finds Pearce playing a convict who makes a deal to save the daughter of the President of the United States from a space prison that’s been taken over by the convicts. Maggie Grace, further connecting the film to the whole “Taken” vibe, plays the kidnapped daughter.
The film is from the Luc Besson action assembly line, which means it should be pretty fun and entertaining, but a major mess when it comes to storytelling and all that other narrative stuff.
Besson, who produces, also co-wrote the script with co-directors James Mather and Stephen St. Leger.
Get locked in (get it?) April 20, 2012.
