Abduction

[GeneChing]

So does Lautner do any decent martial arts in Twilight? Werewolf fu? I guess I'm on Team Jacob.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vWTvysXa3RU/STikBVz8V6I/AAAAAAAAAIk/wG7tOTqOiT4/s320/TeamJacob.png


Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs gets ready for fight scenes with Twilight hunk Taylor Lautner at Scottish gym (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/2010/06/28/harry-potter-star-jason-isaacs-gets-ready-for-fight-scenes-with-twilight-hunk-taylor-lautner-at-scottish-gym-86908-22366269/)
Jun 28 2010 By Amy Devine

HOLLYWOOD star Jason Isaacs has been training at a Scots gym for a screen scrap with a teenage heartthrob.

Isaacs, 47, hopes that daily sessions with Edinburgh martial arts specialists will help him square up to Twilight beefcake Taylor Lautner, 18.

Staff at the capital's Krav Maga gym were stunned when the Harry Potter star phoned to ask for training.

They put him through his paces every morning while he was in the city for the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

The superfit Brit - who also appeared in Black Hawk Down and The Patriot - will film fight scenes for thriller Abduction with Lautner in the US next month.

Gym boss Marcus Houston, 33, said: "I didn't know who he was when he called us, but when he came into the gym I realised he had been in some of my favourite films.

"Jason will have to film fight scenes with a guy almost 30 years his junior and he obviously doesn't want to look foolish.

"We spent five sessions hitting the pads and moving constantly.

"Jason is already superfit from tennis and running but for this role he has to look like a proper warhorse.

"I think Lautner is going to have his work cut out."

Marcus opened the gym in Edinburgh's Bonnington area in January.

It takes its name from an Israeli martial art taught to elite special forces around the world.

He said: "Jason is our first celebrity client and it was a great experience.

"I can't wait to see him in the film."

Hold the phone, Isaacs is Malfoy? Malfoy vs. Jacob? If only I could get a kung fu Harry Potter thread going...if only... Do we need an Abduction thread?

[GeneChing]

I cannibalized the post above from the Cancun starring Taylor Lautner thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55893).

This looks like it took a page from Hanna (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=956) - programed young assassin hidden from the agency for protection, comes of age and is on the run.

Follow the link below for the trailer

'Abduction' Trailer: Taylor Lautner Kicks Butt And Makes Out! (http://hollywoodcrush.mtv.com/2011/04/13/abduction-trailer/)
Posted 4/13/11 10:30 pm ET by Breia Brissey in Crush Exclusive!,

Whoa! That's the first word that came to mind after watching MTV's EXCLUSIVE premiere of the trailer for Taylor Lautner's "Abduction," which hits theaters September 23. Taylor stars as Nathan Price, a teenager who has always felt different. As he says in the trailer: "I walk around like everybody else, but inside I just feel like I'm a stranger in my own life."

And there's a reason. After Nathan stumbles across his baby picture on a missing-person's website, he suddenly becomes involved in a world of mystery and underground spies. Not to mention, he's been dubbed a "high value asset" by the CIA, and now he's on the run. (Do I really have to wait until September for answers?!)

After only two and a half minutes, Taylor already looks like a bona fide action star (did you see him avoiding gun shots while sliding down that glass roof?) in this completely different, non-werewolf role. And even though I'm slightly disappointed he appears to remain mostly clothed in the movie, I'm totally digging him as an action hero. He pulls off the fighting, motorcycle riding and general badassness pretty well.

So the moral of the story: I kinda loved the trailer! What did you think? I'm sure the name Taylor Lautner alone already had you pretty excited about the movie, but after seeing the full trailer are you sold on "Abduction?" And on a scale of one to 10, how jealous are you of Lily Collins for sharing that steamy train kiss with Taylor? (OK, we know it's acting. But that doesn't keep us from swooning!)

[doug maverick]

I cannibalized the post above from the Cancun starring Taylor Lautner thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55893).

This looks like it took a page from Hanna (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=956) - programed young assassin hidden from the agency for protection, comes of age and is on the run.

Follow the link below for the trailer

agrred, but its more of an action film then hanna. i liked the trailer....john singleton very interesting choice of director.

[GeneChing]

Abduction (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60223) goes up against Statham's Killer Elite, which features De Niro, but no ninjas like the James Caan film of the same title. That's in 4 weeks - 9/23 - unless dates are changed. Hmm, I guess this should go on the Abduction thread...

[doug maverick]

abduction is gonna slay killer elite most likely, all the twihards are gonna come out for this..

[sanjuro_ronin]

Killer elite looks good, though I am not a fan of Statham.
The fight choreography looks "Bourneish" which is good.
Where hollywood gets the notion the spec ops soldiers are "killing machines" is beyond me.

[doug maverick]

because most operators are...thats what they are trained to do..thats why alot of them bug the effe out.

[GeneChing]

For anal archiving sake, Post #4 actually fell out of post #32 on the Expendables II thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1130490#post1130490).

I was just at our local mall for lunch. There were Abduction posters on every kiosk. You're right, Doug, marketing is focused on those twihards hard.

[GeneChing]

Caught Lautner on Letterman last night. My wife thought he looked skinny, his teeth were too white and he was full of himself. :p
Is Taylor thinking about snapping Dave like a twig? (http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show/video/?pid=wbXPvlEmxnqsAC5Z5to_dF6nR07jeW6Q&vs=Default&play=true)


Review: 'Abduction' Is Hitch**** Lite ... With Lautner Lite (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/idUS358619366720110922)
content by The Wrap
By Alonso Duralde at TheWrap
Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:13am EDT

On paper, at least, “Abduction” seems like a story Alfred Hitch**** would have loved: It’s about a young man who finds out his entire life has been a lie and who’s then forced to become a fugitive, unable to trust either the government agents or the foreign thugs who are chasing him, and the story climaxes at a crowded baseball stadium.

But director John Singleton is no Alfred Hitch****. And even if he were, what would Hitch**** do with Taylor Lautner?

It’s too early in Lautner’s career to judge whether he’s going to blossom from box-of-kittens-adorable teen dream to actual actor, but movies as wispy as “Abduction” aren’t going to help him get there.

Lautner stars as Nathan, a rambunctious high-school senior who’s got anger issues, not to mention a recurring dream about watching a woman get abducted. His parents Kevin (Jason Isaacs) and Mara (Maria Bello) are tough but loving — Kevin makes a hungover Nathan spar with him in the backyard and…

Wait a minute — we’re supposed to believe the fair-complected Isaacs and Bello gave birth to the dark Lautner? Well, no. Nathan finds his picture on a missing children website, only to discover that he’s accidentally tipped off the Serbian mobsters who’ve been looking for him for years. Isaacs and Bello are CIA agents who have been protecting Nathan — even Nathan’s shrink (Sigourney Weaver) is an undercover agent — and his real dad has a list of rogue spooks (there’s your Hitch****ian MacGuffin plot device) that the Serbs want.

Before anyone can catch their breath, the bad guys have offed Nathan’s adoptive parents and blown up their house, and he’s running from both the Serbs and CIA honcho Burton (Alfred Molina), whom Nathan doesn’t entirely trust. Along for the ride is Karen (Lily Collins), the literal girl next door, who proves herself to be spectacularly useless, even by action-movie-chick-sidekick standards.

“Abduction” might have worked had Singleton and screenwriter Shawn Christensen had treated this more as a teen lark, but they’ve decided to make the movie as “Bourne” as possible. And if there’s one thing that Lautner can’t quite pull off yet, it’s gravitas. (His self-mocking cameo in “Valentine’s Day” was one of that film’s only amusing moments, so playing to his comic side might well have worked.)

Singleton surrounds his star with a cast of vets, but it’s left to Lautner to be heartbroken and vengeance-driven and haunted, and it all feels just a bit out of his skill set.

Still, the action moments pop, from the big finale at a Pittsburgh Pirates game to a mano-a-mano fistfight on an Amtrak train. The latter, incidentally, illustrates a uniquely American brand of filmmaking that assumes everyone watching is a complete idiot — the fight is intercut with flashbacks of Kevin teaching Nathan boxing strategy, but in the very next scene, Nathan has to explain to Karen, “He was preparing me all along.” Yes, movie, thank you, we get it. Move it along.

While “Abduction” isn’t the fiasco that “Twilight” haters might have been eagerly awaiting, it’s as unmemorable as they come. But at least it’s better than the Robert Pattinson 9/11 misfire “Remember Me,” so Lautner can still hold his head high at the “Breaking Dawn” premiere party.

[enoajnin]

At least they are already planning Abduction 2. Maybe they should have waited until they saw the box office returns?

[GeneChing]

abduction is gonna slay killer elite most likely, all the twihards are gonna come out for this..
I wouldn't call that a slaying...

From Box Office Mojo (http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/)

1 1 The Lion King (in 3D) BV $21,929,332 -27.3% 2,330 - $9,412 $61,475,402 - 2

2 N Moneyball Sony $19,501,302 - 2,993 - $6,516 $19,501,302 $50 1

3 N Dolphin Tale WB $19,152,401 - 3,507 - $5,461 $19,152,401 $37 1

4 N Abduction LGF $10,925,253 - 3,118 - $3,504 $10,925,253 $35 1

5 N Killer Elite ORF $9,352,008 - 2,986 - $3,132 $9,352,008 $70 1

[doug maverick]

didnt say it would win the box office now....lol...i was talking about this the other day...shows the staying power of the lion king when a movie thats almost twenty years old comes out and kills every othermovie including a brad pitt film. i must admit i was one of those on line to see lion king in 3d and it was great.

[GeneChing]

More like a booby prize. Curiosity got the better of me and I netflix streamed it.

Lautner is He's surrounded by a great cast - Sigourney Weaver, Alfred Molina, Michael Nyqvist (the original Bloomquist in tGwtDT (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56760)) and Lily Collins (from Mirror Mirror (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1035), who I'm really starting to like despite her Brooke Shield's eyebrows). They are all good here. The premise of the film is ok, somewhat preposterous but it's an action flick so who really cares about that? Taylor has a teasing sparring scene early in the film, which promises he'll bust out a good fight and inspire hordes of Twilight fans to take up the martial arts. But he never does. VERY DISAPPOINTING. He's horribly stiff as an actor with no range beyond taking off his shirt and showing off his abs. Maybe that's the 'ab' in abduction. No sword fights beyond me wanted to stab myself in the eyes. :mad: