Liam Neeson and Zachary Levi lead a crew of battle-scarred CIA operators on a redemption mission into Tehran after a botched Afghanistan operation in the first trailer for The Fix, released July 21. Directed by Guy Moshe, the action thriller has already drawn comparisons to 13 Hours and Sicario ahead of its September 11 theatrical release.
Liam Neeson growls his way back into familiar territory with a line built for trailers: “I may deceive you, but I’ll never lie to you.” That’s the hook Guy Moshe’s The Fix dropped on July 21, teasing a squad of broken CIA operators pulled back into service after an Afghan mission goes horribly wrong. Their next job takes them to Tehran, where Neeson’s mentor figure Larry and Zachary Levi’s Tucker try to engineer one clean rescue out of the wreckage. Critics sampling early footage have already reached for 13 Hours and Sicario as reference points, and with a September 11 release date locked in, the timing alone suggests this one wants to hit hard.
The first trailer for The Fix landed on July 21, 2026, and it wastes no time setting the mood. Directed by Guy Moshe, the film sends a team of battered CIA operators into Tehran with Liam Neeson anchoring the mission. Early coverage has drawn parallels to 13 Hours, Argo, Sicario and Black Hawk Down.
A botched mission, one last shot at redemption
The story opens on failure. After an operation in Afghanistan goes tragically wrong, a group of war-torn operators gets a chance to earn back their standing by pulling off a daring rescue inside Tehran, where the heist goes sideways almost immediately. Neeson plays Larry, the veteran mentoring the team, while Zachary Levi takes on Tucker, the man actually leading it on the ground. The trailer leans hard into that dynamic: seasoned judgment on one side, raw urgency on the other.
A deep bench in front of and behind the camera
The ensemble around the two leads is stacked. Titus Welliver, familiar to millions as the title character in Bosch, joins Elnaaz Norouzi, Wes Chatham, Jake Choi, Augusto Aguilera, Navid Negahban and Annet Mahendru. Behind the camera, Moshe co-wrote the screenplay with Mark Bacci and Ron Hutchinson, giving the film a script shaped by 3 hands rather than a single voice.
Theaters on September 11, 2026
The Fix opens in US theaters on September 11, 2026, less than two months after the trailer’s debut. For Neeson, the film extends a run of action-thriller roles that stretches back to his career-defining turn in Taken, where he played retired agent Bryan Mills. The Tehran setting and ensemble structure set this one apart from his usual lone-avenger formula, but the moral weight he carries on screen remains recognizably his.
The film was first announced in 2024 under the working title Hotel Tehran before being renamed to The Fix.
