"I’ve taken a job over in Istanbul," he explained. "Looking after a sheik who is there, and afterward I discover that my wife’s going through a very bad time with her new husband. So I suggest she and my daughter come over for a few days and hang out with me in this amazing city. And then… [laughs] all this s—t happens, of course."

As to exactly what kind of feces hit the fan in the sequel, Neeson specified that this time, Mills's daughter, played by Maggie Grace, wouldn't be imperiled, saying, "I’m taken — let’s put it that way. They kidnap him to humiliate him, torture him, and ultimately bring him back to the village in Albania where the boys from the original film came from. With the help of my daughter… she wants to help me escape from where these bad guys have me."

Additionally, the star briefly ran down the production schedule before revealing that some additional photography is in order.  "We shot in Istanbul for five or six weeks before Christmas," he said. "Then we were in L.A. for a week, and then we were in Paris earlier this year, and I have to go back over soon because there are a few little scenes we can improve. It’ll be lovely to see Famke again, and Maggie. We make a good team, the girls in my life."

Pierre Morel directed Taken, but for the sequel, Columbiana and Transporter 3 director Olivier Megaton takes over as helmer.  Robert Mark Kamen returns as screenwriter, with action impresario Luc Besson once again co-writing producing.  Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace are back, too, and you could do a whole lot worse than checking out IAR's exclusive interview with Grace at WonderCon.

Taken 2 is set to pummel moviegoers on October 5th.