Liam Neeson Races Against Wolves In New Clip From The Grey

[Brendon Connelly]

Punches With Wolves might have been a better title for forthcoming action drama The Grey, which has been creating quite a stir recently due to clips of the film showing Liam Neeson strapping broken liqueur bottles to his knuckles in preparation for battle.

A new clip has been released via ShockTillYouDrop, which shows Neeson and friends being chased down a big snowy hill by their new furry friends.



Director Joe Carnahan (The A-Team, Smokin' Aces) also created a stir recently by boasting in an interview with Empire that in one scene he got a great performance out of Liam Neeson by telling him to think about his late wife Natasha Richardson, who was killed in a skiing accident in 2009.

There's a letter that Ottway's writing to his wife, and I said, 'Write it to Natasha.' I wanted it to come from an innermost place... I think it's one of Liam's finest performances. It might honestly be his best."

I'm surprised Carnahan managed to walk away from that little piece of 'acting advice' with all his teeth intact. I'm not sure he would have been so full of helpful tips had Neeson been wearing his glass knuckles at the time.

[Kinnon]

I was attacked by a fecking HUGE dog (of course everything's massive when you're 7) as a munchkin, so big dogs have always slightly freaked me out even years later. I think it plugs into that very primal thing, drop a can of pedigree chum in a bowl and they're all mans best friend, but go back to their genetic roots, and pop them in the wilderness and suddenly YOU'RE the pedigree chum. This talk that Carnahan evoked the memory of Natasha Richardson for the sake of a performance makes me a little sad as well though, it's up to Mr Neeson if he wants to access that for a performance, no-one else really has any business bringing it up for any reason, so I think you're spot on there Brendon.

[Rootfireember]

I've felt safer around high percentage wolf dog hybrids and some pit bull types than some poodles.
Dogs might be related to wolves, but socially and mentally there's a big difference between an animal that truly matures and a pet. That being said, there's a tradition of sharp toothed monsters in our horror stories. And, of course, the big bad wolf.

As for the acting suggestion... Crud. That was a bit insensitive. But it wasn't worse than what I've heard some coaches on tv shows telling kids who were just getting in.

[nightwind1]

This movie disgusts me. Wolves do NOT attack human beings. Wolves do NOT stalk human beings. This film is just perpetuating a negative stereotype, one which contributed to the hunting of millions of wolves through the centuries, including now, when idiots hunt them from airplanes.

[Rootfireember]

It's extremely rare- but healthy wolves have on occasion stalked and killed human beings. (so have coyotes). Granted you are more likely to win the lotto, get hit by a truck, and then become president than to be eaten by a wolf or coyote.

That being said- cinema portrayals of wolves have rarely been interested in having a wolf be anything but scary rawr.
It's part of the American and european idea of wolves, and it's something we grow up with.

I don't expect a documentary from this. I expect something overdone, a bit funny, with liam.
I mean Serriously. Fighting wolves with beer bottles? How can it not fall farther into absurdity?