The last time we checked in on Taken 2 was just a couple of weeks ago, when Rade Sherbedgia was cast as the villain. Now the good guys have one more face among their ranks as Luke Grimes has sealed a deal to join the film.

This sequel to the 2008 thriller finds Liam Neeson’s retired CIA agent Bryan Mills in even more deep water when he and his ex-wife (Famke Janssen) are themselves held hostage by the dad (Sherbedgia) of one of the bad guys killed in that go-around. Looking to take revenge for his son’s death at Mills’ hands, he threatens to murderise the couple.

So this time it’s the turn of their daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) to somehow pull off a rescue attempt. Well, it’s the least she could do after her dad saved her. Grimes is aboard to play her boyfriend, who gets roped into the mission.

Grimes made his debut in Jonathan Levine’s All The Boys Love Mandy Lane and has since been seen in Assassination Of A High School President and the upcoming The Wait. He also spent some time on US telly drama Brothers & Sisters.

Taken producer Luc Besson has once more written the script with Robert Mark Kamen, and Olivier Megaton is directing this one.