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Taken is a 2008 English-language French action-thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Liam Neeson , Maggie Grace , Leland Orser , Jon Gries , David Warshofsky , Katie Cassidy , Holly Valance and Famke Janssen .
Hammond was selected by James Lee Barrett to represent the small southern town of Sparta, Mississippi. The producers had difficulty finding usable filming locations, because other, more modern structures were close enough to be picked up in the images. [1] Eight episodes were filmed—the two-hour pilot movie and six regular one-hour episodes.
Taken is a series of English-language French action films, beginning with Taken in 2008, created by producer Luc Besson and American screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. The dialogue of all three films is primarily English, and all three feature Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills.
Detective Virgil Tibbs returns to Sparta for his mother's funeral and joins the police force as chief of detectives. His arrival is met with resistance from police chief Bill Gillespie – who, despite his good relationship with Tibbs, resents having an officer hired without his approval.
[1] [better source needed] The series won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Miniseries or TV Movie. [ 2 ] When the show was launched, the Sci-Fi Channel used the simultaneous establishment of the organization Coalition for Freedom of Information in its promotion campaign. [ 3 ]
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison, produced by Walter Mirisch, and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. It tells the story of Virgil Tibbs (Poitier), a Black police detective from Philadelphia , who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi .
Taken is an action-thriller television series based on the Taken film series. It is an origin story for Bryan Mills ( Clive Standen ), the character played by Liam Neeson in the trilogy. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The series was commissioned with a straight-to-series-order in September 2015 [ 5 ] and premiered on February 27, 2017, on NBC . [ 6 ]
"Sweet, Sweet Blues" is an episode of the NBC drama series In the Heat of the Night, starring Carroll O'Connor as Chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as Detective Virgil Tibbs. [1] In the Heat of the Night was based on the 1965 novel by John Ball, which was also the basis for the Academy Award winning film of the same name starring Sidney ...