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Taken
ActionCrimeThriller
Another series shares this name: Taken (2002).
From Executive Producer Luc Besson 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 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.
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Premiered
- February 27, 2017
- Ended
- June 30, 2018
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