You know what makes any film better? Liam Neeson. And Russell Crowe is a great addition too… so imagine my pleasant surprise to find out that the two are starring together in a strange twist on the Prison Break model in The Next Three Days.
“Russell Crowe
[plays] a teacher whose wife (Elizabeth Banks) is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit,” writes the trade. “Several years of incarceration leaves her suicidal and he plots to break her out. Neeson plays an ex-con who has broken out of jail multiple times, has written a book about it, and shows the teacher how it’s done.”
I love the premise of this, as it is going to be rich in social conflict.
The failed justice system that incarcerated his poor (sexy) wife, the strange team up of an ex-con trying to break someone else out of prison. It all oozes of conflict since you want to feel what they are doing is right, yet they are committing a crime to accomplish it. And then what do they do if they find out that his wife DID do it. What now.
I am really looking forward to this.
