UPDATE: ‘Vikings’ star CLIVE STANDEN plays a young ‘Bryan Mills’ in the FIRST Trailer for NBC’s TAKEN series below!

SYNOPSIS: From Executive Producer Luc Besson (“Taken,” “The Fifth Element”) comes a thrilling new addition to his iconic blockbuster action-film franchise. This new, modern-day, edge-of-your-seat thriller follows the origin story of younger, hungrier, former Green Beret Bryan Mills (Clive Standen, “Vikings”) as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.

The series premieres February 27th on NBC.

NBC have placed an order for a new PREQUEL TV series to the hit action franchise TAKEN produced by LUC BESSON.

The original film was released back in 2008 that surprised audiences with a slick edge-of-your-seat action thriller that catapulted lead actor LIAM NEESON into action hero status. Neeson played ‘Bryan Mills’, a retired CIA operative on a mission to save his daughter by any means necessary.

The TV series will follow a younger ‘Bryan Mills’ on his journey to learning his “very particular set of skills” that we all witnessed in the ‘Taken’ trilogy.

No words yet on who will portray ‘Mills’ in the series. Casting should be underway soon.

Stay tuned for more details!

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter