Trailer for Tooken, Spoof of the Taken films, and Non-Stop While It’s At It

Liam Neeson’s late career as an action hero is being parodied in the new movie Tooken. Clearly Taken is the filmmaker’s main target, but there’s a lot of Non-Stop in this trailer too. Which is to say, they seem to have filmed a lot on a plane set. I guess you might as well, once you’ve hired the thing.

Tooken Trailer from Ardor Pictures on Vimeo.

That crept out a week or so ago and went apparently undisturbed until Film Divider found it today. Thanks for that… I guess?

While we wait for Taken 4, here’s a trailer for its “official spoof” movie, Tooken

You may have recognised the lead there as Lee Tergeson, a character actor popular for his appearances in Oz and, more recently, American Horror Story, and the film was co-written and directed by John Asher and co-written by Cameron van Hoy. Despite what you might quickly assume, those aren’t the guys behind Epic Movie, Date Movie, Disaster Movie. Those guys would probably call theirs Taking Movie anyway.

Let me just look that up on IMDB…

Oh. They’re calling it Who the F#@K Took My Daughter? So far, it’s just announced and there’s no cast list know so if it does come out, it won’t be for, oh, I dunno, at least a fortnight.

You know… it’s almost a shame Taken 3 didn’t come out before Tooken because they’d have loved to work in that panda, I’m sure.

I know we shouldn’t hold the original, and still very funny, Airplane responsible for all of the lesser spoofs that have dribbled out in the nearly 40 years since (!) but I might just have to throw my copy across the room in frustration anyway.