Liam Neeson plays Bill Marks, a U.S. Air Marshal in this suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air.
During a transatlantic fight from New York City to London, Marks receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the airline to transfer $150 million into a numbered account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his fight will be killed every 20 minutes.
Struggling with his personal demons has drained Marks of any passion for the heroic calling of his profession. He has come to view his important assignment as merely a desk job in the sky. However, another day at the offce becomes a high-stakes crisis when shortly into a routine transatlantic fight, Marks’ world is upended.
Surrounded by only a couple of people he initially believes are trustworthy—including his fellow passenger, Jen Summers (Golden Globe Award winner JULIANNE MOORE of The Hunger Games — the resourceful air marshal must use every nuance of his training to uncover the killer traveling on board the aircraft. What follows is a nail-biting cat-and-mouse game with the lives of hundreds of passengers hanging in the balance.
Co-starring alongside Neeson and Moore are MICHELLE DOCKERY (television’s Downton Abbey) and Academy Award® nominee and Screen Actors Guild Award winner LUPITA NYONG’O (12 Years a Slave) as Nancy and Gwen, respectively, lead fight attendants on British Aqualantic fight 10; NATE PARKER (Arbitrage) as Zack, SCOOT MCNAIRY (Argo) as Tom, COREY STOLL (Netflix’s House of Cards) as Austin and OMAR METWALLY (Rendition) as Dr. Nasir, all fellow passengers under Marks’ suspicious gaze; LINUS ROACHE (Batman Begins) as David, the pilot of the aircraft, and JASON BUTLER HARNER (Changeling) as Kyle, his co-pilot; SHEA WHIGHAM (American Hustle) as Agent Marenick, Marks’ TSA contact on the ground; and ANSON MOUNT (TV’s Hell on Wheels) as Jack, the second air marshal on the 767.
Non-Stop’s behind-the-scenes team is led by director of photography FLAVIO LABIANO (Unknown, upcoming The Gunman), editor JIM MAY (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, G.I. Joe: Retaliation), production designer ALEXANDER HAMMOND (Red, Flightplan), costume designer CATHERINE MARIE THOMAS (The Heat, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, 2) and composer JOHN OTTMAN (Unknown, upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past).
In this story of a man in need of redemption, we are introduced to the tortured Bill Marks, who, by all appearances, has given up on life. The ex-NYPD cop sits in his flthy car at the airport finishing off the last of his scotch…and then we realize this is actually his pre-work routine as he attempts to muster up any interest to do his job. Clearly, this is a man who is lost.
As he prepares to board the 767 for what should be a routine fight, the alcoholic Marks is on edge. He just wants to punch his time card and fly to Europe and back as fast as possible without any aggravation.
During the check-in and boarding process, bleary-eyed-but-surprisingly-sharp Marks encounters some fellow passengers who will soon become quite familiar to us, and he exchanges knowing glances with fight attendant Nancy, whom he seems to know well. As the plane lifts off for London, nothing seems out of the ordinary, and he settles in for a six-hour trip.
Shortly into the fight, we discover that Marks is a U.S. Air Marshal. He begins receiving text messages over the plane’s secure network, demanding that he force the airline to transfer $150 million into a secret account or a passenger will be killed every 20 minutes.
When he realizes that the sender is someone on board and deadly serious, the race to solve the mystery begins. The rest of the story plays out almost in real time as Marks—without the support of a ground team—wrestles with who is actually trustworthy, while the terrifed crew and passengers wonder whether it is Marks who is trying to take down their plane.
Get involved in this exciting, fun-thrill ride 40,000 feet above ground.
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Cast:
Bill Marks – LIAM NEESON
Jen Summers – JULIANNE MOORE
Tom Bowen – ..SCOOT MCNAIRY
Nancy – MICHELLE DOCKERY
Zack White – NATE PARKER
Austin Reilly – COREY STOLL
Gwen – LUPITA NYONG’O
Dr. Fahim Nasir – OMAR METWALLY
Kyle Rice – JASON BUTLER HARNER
David McMillan – LINUS ROACHE
Agent Marenick – SHEA WHIGHAM
Jack Hammond – ANSON MOUNT
Becca – QUINN MCCOLGAN
Travis Mitchell – COREY HAWKINS
Charles Wheeler – FRANK DEAL
Iris Marianne – BAR PALY
Herve Philbert – EDOARDO COSTA
David Norton – JON ABRAHAMS
Emily Norton – AMANDA QUAID
Credits & Crew:
Presented by STUDIOCANAL
A SILVER PICTURES Production
In Association with ANTON CAPITAL ENTERTAINMENT S.C.A. and LOVEFILM
A JAUME COLLET-SERRA Film
Directed by – JAUME COLLET-SERRA
Screenplay by – JOHN W. RICHARDSON & CHRIS ROACH AND RYAN ENGLE
Story by – .JOHN W. RICHARDSON & CHRIS ROACH
Produced by – JOEL SILVER, ANDREW RONA, ALEX HEINEMAN
Executive Producers – STEVE RICHARDS, RON HALPERN, OLIVIER COURSON, HERBERT W. GAINS, JEFF WADLOW
Director of Photography – FLAVIO LABIANO
Production Designer – ALEXANDER HAMMOND
Film Editor – JIM MAY, ACE
Music by – JOHN OTTMAN
Co-Producers – RICHARD MIRISCH, ADAM KUHN
Costume Designer – CATHERINE MARIE THOMAS
Casting by – AMANDA MACKEY, CATHY SANDRICH GELFOND
Unit Production Manager – HERBERT W. GAINS