Liam Neeson to become Unknown White Male in new mystery thriller

According to Variety, Liam Neeson is in talks to star in the thriller Unknown White Male, which Juame Collet-Serra (Orphan) is directing.

Joel Silver (The Matrix Trilogy, V For Vendetta) is producing the project, which is based on a novel by Didier Van Cauwelaert titled Out of My Head.

Production is set to start in January, with Neeson playing a doctor who heads to Berlin for a medical conference and gets into a car accident. When he awakens from a coma, he discovers that not only doesn’t his wife recognize him, she is living with another man who has assumed his identity.