How’s this for badass popcorn movie fun—Luc Besson teams up with Guy Pearce to lift the basic premise of the Escape From New York/Escape From L.A. series and drops it in the middle of an outer space maximum security prison riot.  Not bad, right?  Not exactly the most original story—Pearce plays a wrongly disgraced and convicted government agent who’s given a chance to go free, provided he can rescue the president’s daughter from the violent inmates of a space station prison—but Pearce can make nearly anything work.  And now you can view the first five minutes of Lockout after jump.

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When Taken came out in January of 2009, it was not expected to be a runaway success. In fact, it was an action movie going up against the Super Bowl. But the film became an honest-to-goodness word-of-mouth hit. Liam Neeson was reborn as an action star – leading to The A-Team and Unknown – and the film made $145 Million at the box office. A sequel was assured and spoken of repeatedly. Earlier today Deadline Hollywood wanted to throw some cold water on that fire, reporting that either the film would go forward without Neeson, or shoot in another year. Now it appears that those contract disputes have been resolved, and shooting is to begin either at the end of the year or the start of 2012

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Acclaimed French director Luc Besson is known for his hardcore action flicks but after years in the business he’s ready to challenge himself with something new. According to HeatVision, he’s currently shopping around a script that he wrote along with David Marconi that’s being described as a “love story.”

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Over the past two years the beautiful and talented Zoe Saldana has become somewhat of an action superstar with roles in Avatar, Star Trek, and most recently The Losers. The actress is currently in negotiations to star in another hard-hitting film entitled Colombiana that will be produced by The Fifth Element director, Luc Besson.

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