Boyd Holbrook (MILK, the HATFIELDS & McCOYS miniseries) will join the Scott Frank-directed film, which THIS piece at Variety says... 

follows an ex-NYPD officer, played by Neeson, who is now serving as a private investigator who is hired to find the kidnapped wife of a drug dealer. He soon finds out the perpetrators have done this before, resulting in several murders.

Director Frank may be best known for has work as a scribe on such high-profile and interesting pictures as GET SHORTY, MINORITY REPORT, MARLEY & ME, and the forthcoming WOLVERINE film.  He's scripting the film based on a novel of the same name by Lawrence Bock.  

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Glen Oliver