The great Liam Neeson has been kind of MIA since his stint in Batman Begins. This spring though, he�ll show up in the strangely British Western Seraphim Falls, and while we�re watching that Variety says he�ll go to work on the new Luc Besson/Robert Mark Kamen scripted movie Taken.

Don�t worry, Besson hasn�t pulled a Scorsese and cancelled the directorial retirement plans he announced a few months ago. He�s just writing it, not directing. He�ll be producing a number of movies in the next couple of years, so his retirement won�t really be much of a rest. The guy is staying active.

In Taken, Nesson is an ex-soldier out to rescue a daughter kidnapped by slavers while traveling in Europe. With the clock ticking, he has to track her down before she�s lost forever.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about Liam�s attachment to the project is that he�s only able to do it because his commitment to Steven Spielberg�s next movie Lincoln has been delayed. Lincoln was supposed to be Steven�s next movie, but Variety says he�s delaying it to direct Indiana Jones 4. When George Lucas announced they�d go into production on the movie in 2007, few actually believed it. He�s made announcement like that before, but nothing has ever come of it. But if Spielberg is delaying other movies in order to work in Indy, then perhaps it�ll finally happen.