Liam Neeson’s next action outing Cold Pursuit has just bagged a debut trailer courtesy of the folks at STUDIOCANAL. I do believe that this one was going by the name Hard Powder for some time before the title switch. The plot obviously remains the same, though – Neeson is a snow-plough driver whose son is murdered by a drug cartel on top of a mountain. Obviously, Neeson’s character is out for some revenge, picking off the cartel one by one.
Here are the official words as provided by the distributor.
>Welcome to Kehoe, it’s -10 degrees and counting at this glitzy ski resort in the Rocky Mountains. The local police aren’t used to much action until the son of unassuming town snowplough driver, Nels Coxman (Liam Neeson), is murdered at the order of Viking (Tom Bateman), a flamboyant drug lord. Fueled by rage and armed with heavy machinery, Nels sets out to dismantle the cartel one man at a time, but his understanding of murder comes mainly from what he read in a crime novel. As the bodies pile up, his actions ignite a turf war between Viking and his long-standing rival White Bull (Tom Jackson), a soulful Native-American mafia boss, that will quickly escalate and turn the small town’s bright white slopes blood-red.
Hans Petter Moland directs Neeson, Tom Bateman, Laura Dern and Emmy Rossum.
This looks like it has got some wicked black humour to it. So far, I’m down with it.
Cold Pursuit doesn’t come out until February, but you can see the first trailer and debut poster below.
