Luc Besson may have closed the door on a future full of directing gigs (for a while now he just passes on his screenplays to other directors), but the former filmmaker and Europacorp. have the good fortunehave finding a home stateside for all Besson-related material. Today, Lionsgate Films have picked up Pierre Morel‘s From Paris with Love (the third collaboration with Besson as the writer and Morel as director) and have pegged the action flick with car crashes for a February 19th release, which happens to be not that far off Morel’s successful domestic release of Taken (starring Liam Nesson) this past January.
Scripted by Besson and Adi Hasak, this concerns a young embassy low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent (John Travolta) who’s been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.
