- Original name: The raid
- Country: USA
- Genre: thriller
- Producer: Joe Carnahan
- World premiere: unknown
- Premiere in Russia: unknown
- Starring: unknown
Rumors have been circulating for quite some time about the production of Raid, but there is no confirmed information about the film, the release date of the action movie, the approved actors and the trailer. The famous director is Joe Carnahan, known for his love of action-packed movies like Bad Boys Forever. The film is a remake of Gareth Evans 'Indonesian project The Raid, and the studio that produced the film sold the rights to a Hollywood adaptation of Evans' work in order to complete the sequel.
Expectations rating - 84%.
Plot
An international criminal fugitive and his gang trap a small SWAT squad inside a building. Based on the concept of Gareth Evans' film The Raid: Redemption (2011).
The director himself opened the veil of secrecy and shared the introduction to the film:
“You see the main character just returned from a really brutal special forces operation. He has soft tissue damage, a ruptured shoulder muscle, and doctors are pumping fluid from his knees. The doctor tells him: "You are exhausted and broken, you have PTSD and you just need rest to recover."
And then he receives a message that his brother, whom he believed dead for four years, is actually alive and working for a very bad guy in Caracas, and in 18 hours they will kill his brother ... "
Production
Director - Joe Carnahan (Team A, Smokin 'Aces, Skirmish, Blacklist).
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Worked on the film:
- Screenplay: Joe Carnahan (Bad Boys Forever, Chicano, Death Wish), Gareth Evans (Raid, Footsteps, The Apostle), Adam G. Simon (Point Blank, War );
- Producers: Nathaniel Bolotin (The Night Is Coming, "Fight in Block 99", "Spring", "Mandy"), Joe Carnahan ("No Face", "Driver for the Night", "State of the Art"), Frank Grillo ("Warrior", "Kingdom", "Patrol", "Drove", "Black and Blue");
Studios: WarParty Films, XYZ Films.
Director Joe Carnahan shares his expectations for the upcoming project:
"I want the whole film to be like Adam Goldberg's fight against the Germans in Saving Private Ryan and also capture hearts."
Actors
Starring: Unknown.
Interesting Facts
Here are some facts surrounding the Raid remake:
- It is the first Indonesian film adapted by Hollywood.
- The rights to the American adaptation of Raid (2011) were sold to cover funding for the sequel Raid 2 (2014).
- Brothers Chris and Liam Hemsworth were considered for the lead role, but so far there is no confirmed casting data.
- The list of possible contributors to the project is impressive, among the actors in question: Michael Fassbender, Colin Farrell, Hugh Jackman, Chris Pine, Chris Pratt, Mark Wolberg, Luke Evans, Bradley Cooper and many others.
Whether Carnahan will succeed in discovering a new Spielberg in himself is difficult to say, while this is all the available information about the film "Raid", we will wait for the trailer, cast and release date of the remake. Whether the idea will turn out to be more than just an action movie, we will find out very soon.