'This is the end': Liam Neeson hints Taken 3 is last in the franchise... as new images from the action thriller are released 

By Michael Speier For Mailonline

Published: 15:21 EST, 23 September 2014 | Updated: 17:29 EST, 23 September 2014

Liam Neeson is back as hero Bryan Mills for Taken 3.

On Tuesday three new images from the action thriller - due out in January - were released with the 62-year-old star looking as tense as usual.

That same day the Irish actor told USA Today that the series is over. 'I think this is the end,' he confessed of the mega successful franchise.

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On a mission: Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills in the second sequel to the megahit Taken

On a mission: Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills in the second sequel to the megahit Taken

Neeson also went on to humorously decry the constant kidnapping that seems to go on within his household.

'If my daughter was 'taken' again on a trip, Bryan Mills would have to be certifiably locked up for bad parenting,' he joked. 

This time around, Neeson becomes the hunted after being accused of killing a friend. 

New face: Forest Whitaker joins the Taken series, which has made more than $600 million worldwide

New face: Forest Whitaker joins the Taken series, which has made more than $600 million worldwide

'I have to go on the run, I'll put it that way,' he said in the interview.

 'From the not-so-lawful types and the lawful authorities. Bryan Mills served his country faithfully, but now even they are after him. They must not like me.'

Joining Neeson for the third go-round are Maggie Grace, who returns as Neeson's perpetually kidnapped daughter, and Famke Janssen, who is back as her mom.

Gone girl: Maggie Grace returns as Neeson's daughter in the second sequel to the global franchise

Gone girl: Maggie Grace returns as Neeson's daughter in the second sequel to the global franchise

They're joined in this one by Forest Whitaker, who plays a lawman who may or may not be on Neeson's side.

As for Whitaker's big moment with the action star, he said, 'There's no big fight between us, which I would have loved.' 

The actor is considered one of Hollywood's biggest action stars.

Don't mess with me: Neeson's latest, A Walk Among The Tombstones, opens this weekend.

Don't mess with me: Neeson's latest, A Walk Among The Tombstones, opens this weekend.

His recent shoot-em-up - A Walk Among The Tombstones - opens this weekend, and Nonstop grossed $200 million worldwide earlier in the year.

Taken and Taken 2 racked up more than $600 million around the globe.

Liam reportedly earned $20m for Taken 3; he is thought to have made $1m for the original.

 

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