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Liam Neeson is negotiating to star in “Unknown White Male,” the Dark Castle thriller that will be directed by Juame Collet-Serra.

Joel Silver is producing with Leonard Goldberg. Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell wrote the script, which is based on the Didier Van Cauwelaert novel "Out of My Head."

Production will begin in January, and Neeson will play a doctor who goes to Berlin for a medical conference and gets into a car accident. When he awakens from a coma, he discovers that not only doesn’t his wife recognize him, she is living with another man who has assumed his identity.

Neeson, who last starred in the Pierre Morel-directed sleeper hit “Taken,” will take on the role after completing “A-Team,” the Joe Carnahan-directed 20th Century Fox film based on the TV series.

Collet-Serra just directed "Orphan" for Dark Castle.