20th Century Fox announced yesterday that the sequel “Taken 2″ will be released in U.S. cinemas on 05 October 2012, director Olivier Megaton (“Transporter 3″, “Colombiana”, “La Sirène rouge”) will be give start filming later this month, in Turkey and France.

Since April it was known that the Northern Ireland Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace will rejoin the former CIA agent Bryan Mills, of his wife Lenore and their daughter Kim, but new details about about the topic Cinemablend editors take us somewhat by surprise because the situation is completely reversed and the responsibility of war criminals lies this time in the young Kim.

Bryan Mills and Lenore, whom he seems to have reconciled after he saved their daughter Kim when it was kidnapped in Paris with her best friend, by the traffickers in human beings, are kept hostage by Murad, father of one of the pimps assassinated by former CIA agent in the original film in 2008, and Kim need to use every trick learned from her father experienced in order to free her parents.

Murad’s villain role, which is described as a vindictive spirit man, who likes to give orders but does not execute orders to anyone, has been awarded to Rade Serbedzija (65), which you saw in “Batman Begins”, “Mission: Impossible II”, “Shooter”, “X-Men: First Class” or “Snatch” and just finished work on “In the Land of Blood and Honey”, the directorial debut of Angelina Jolie.

Find out more about “Taken 2″ from IMDB.