Con-Air was the last time director Simon West and Nicolas Cage collided and in the years between Cameron Poe’s finest hour and Stolen, their new film, both have found differing degrees of success.

The set up to Stolen isn’t staggeringly original, the marketing and name-change can be attributed to the success of the similarly themed Taken yet Cage and Co can easily come up with something absorbing given the right script.

I spoke to the film’s writer David Guggenheim last year in the press whirligig for Safe House and he outlined the genesis of the project,

About eight years ago I wrote an action script called Medallion that was optioned just before I set up Safe House. It’s since been changed to Stolen, yet the concept has stayed the same: Nicolas Cage plays a bank robber who goes to jail after a heist gone bad. When he gets out, his ex partner takes his estranged daughter and locks her in the trunk of a taxi. He then offers to trade him the taxi’s medallion number for the money he thinks Cage has waiting for him on the outside.

Safe House was a straight forward violent action film with a couple of huge name stars and in the same vein to Stolen director Simon West’s recent The Expendables 2 which eschewed the tongue-in-cheek nostalgia elements producing a brutal po-faced actioner. All things point to a similar no-nonsense affair here.

The 22nd of March is the release date, check out the trailer and poster right here.

Exclusive Trailer and UK Poster for Stolen starring Nicolas Cage Source – HeyUGuys.