![]() Kitsch is represented by CAA and Untitled Entertainment. Kitsch recently proved he still has the dramatic chops that made him a star on “Friday Night Lights,” as he's coming off well-reviewed turns in Ryan Murphy‘s HBO movie “The Normal Heart” and Peter Berg‘s emotional war movie “Lone Survivor.” ![]() XYZ Films is returning to produce a remake that is expected to hew closely to the original film, which followed an elite Indonesian SWAT that gets trapped inside a building run by a vicious gangster and his thugs. Representatives for Kitsch and Screen Gems did not immediately respond to requests for comment.īrad Ingelsby (“Run All Night”) wrote “The Raid” remake, which is based on the original 2011 movie written and directed by Gareth Evans. The film received a sequel in the form of 2014’s The Raid 2. While two sources told TheWrap that Kitsch is in negotiations for “The Raid,” one cautioned that the two sides remain apart on financial terms of the proposed deal. The Raid received international acclaim upon its release, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival. ![]() Coincidentally, that is when the second season of “True Detective” is slated to wrap filming. Patrick Hughes (“The Expendables 3”) is directing the action movie, which is gearing up for a January 2015 shoot. While Kitsch's team has been pushing HBO and “True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto to cast him as the young male lead of the second season, they've been positioning him for “The Raid” remake in the meantime. While the world may never actually see The Raid 3, enough is still known about it to ponder what it could've been.As rumors swirl regarding the second season of HBO's “True Detective,” Taylor Kitsch has been offered the lead in Screen Gems’ English-language remake of “The Raid,” multiple individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap. Uwais has also become one of the biggest martial arts stars in the world, continuing to wow audiences in movies like Beyond Skyline or The Night Comes For Us, along with the Netflix series Wu Assassins and its upcoming movie sequel, Fistful of Vengeance. Though The Raid 3 never happened, both Evans and Uwais have gone on to great careers, with Evans directing the aforementioned Apostle and creating TV series Gangs of London. Evans also seemed intent to hold true to Rama's minimal involvement in the third movie, with The Raid 2 ending on a weary Rama declaring " No, I'm done" when approached by Goto. The American remake of The Raid remains in development , though a parting of ways between rights owners XYZ Films from director Joe Carnahan and star Frank Grillo now makes it an unofficial one on the latter pair's part titled Zeno. From the sound of it, The Raid 3 was going to take quite a left turn from the end of The Raid 2. The film would also have been set mostly in the jungles of Indonesia as the Gotos battle their Yakuza bosses. Instead, the film would have focused more on the Goto crime family coming into conflict with their Yakuza superiors. Evans explained in a 2016 interview with Impact Online (via AICN), " Whether it was a conscious decision or not, moving back to UK felt like a closing chapter on that franchise - we ended the story pretty neatly (I feel) in Part 2." Evans also reiterated this point while promoting Apostle, stating in an interview with Slash Film, " What we did with The Raid 2, we kinda close that off nicely, so it didn’t really appeal to me to jump back into that world again".Įvans has also stated Uwais' character Rama would've had a minor role in The Raid 3 compared to its predecessors. ![]() The likes of Chris and Liam Hemsworth and Frank Grillo have all been. A combination of the ending of The Raid 2 and Evans' return to the UK from Indonesia led to him moving on from The Raid 3. An American remake of The Raid has been gestating for almost a decade, but has never quite got off the ground until now. RELATED: Warrior's Best Fight Borrows Heavily From The RaidĮvans had already wanted to take a break from action moviemaking in the interim between The Raid 2 and The Raid 3, with his next film being the 2018 Netflix horror Apostle. Though Evans conceived of The Raid franchise as a trilogy, The Raid 3 ultimately never happened, with a combination of factors explaining why. Its 2014 sequel The Raid 2 continued to turn the volume up with a more complex crime family plot and even wilder action. Following a police raid of a Jakarta apartment complex filled with killers and psychopaths, The Raid combined the Silat-based action scenes of Merantau with the tone of a survival horror game and became an instant action classic. ![]()
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