Joe Carnahan will be using Liam Neeson, not Bradley Cooper, on his new film “The Grey”, says Heat Vision.

Cooper, who played ‘Faceman’ in the 2010 actioner, had been previously attached to star in the film about about a group of Alaskan pipeline workers whose plane crash lands on their way back home from a remote work site. Neeson, who played ‘Hannibal Smith’ in Carnahan’s ” A-Team” movie, has stepped in to replace Cooper, who – it isn’t stated – likely left the production due to a scheduling clash (possibly with “The Hangover 2″).

Co-written by Carnahan and Ian Jeffers, the story begins after a plane goes down in Alaska, with a man (Neeson) and his oil drilling team find themselves struggling to survive in the wild. The men come under attack by large, vicious, aggressive wolves who see the humans as intruders who must be killed.