Hollywood has long been in the habit of remaking movies from other. Hughes is best known for directing films such as The Expendables 3, The Hitman’s Bodyguard and The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. Michael Bay Is Producing A Remake Of ‘The Raid’ Set In Philadelphia With The Director Of ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin. It is currently unclear if Grillo and Carnahan will be involved in Bay and Hughes’ rework. 449.2 million 2 Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace.
The remake will be “a distinctly original take on the material, which promises to pay great respect to the original film while also bringing a fresh approach and perspective that will set its own course in the action genre,” the film’s producers said, per Deadline.Īnother remake of The Raid was initially announced in 2017, with Frank Grillo set to star and Joe Carnahan tapped as writer and director. The film received a sequel in the form of 2014’s The Raid 2. The Raid received international acclaim upon its release, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival. Starring stuntman and actor Iko Uwais as a rookie cop, The Raid told the simple but undeniably effective story of the titular high-rise. Released in 2011, the Indonesian police thriller The Raid quickly became a huge critical success thanks to its brutally violent, endlessly ambitious, and beautifully choreographed action set-pieces. The original 2011 film stars Iko Uwais as its lead protagonist rookie SWAT operative who, along with his team, has to battle their way up numerous levels in a locked-down apartment complex overrun by a drug lord. The news that action cinema legend Michael Bay will have a hand in the upcoming Netflix remake of The Raid is bad news for fans of the original movie. From writer/director Patrick Hughes & producer Michael Bay, the film is set in Philadelphia’s drug-infested ‘Badlands’, where an undercover DEA task force climbs a ladder of cartel informants to catch a kingpin. While the original film was set in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and featured a predominantly Indonesian cast and crew, the upcoming remake will be set “in Philadelphia’s drug-infested ‘Badlands’”, Netflix revealed on Twitter, “where an undercover DEA task force climbs a ladder of cartel informants to catch a kingpin”.Ī reimagining of Gareth Evans’ THE RAID is coming to Netflix. Gareth Evans, who directed and wrote the original film, will be involved in Netflix’s remake, this time serving as an executive producer. Hughes will also co-write the script with James Beaufort. Per a Deadline report, Bay and American production house XYZ Studios will produce, while Hughes directs the rework of Evans’ acclaimed 2011 film. Hollywood directors Michael Bay and Patrick Hughes have been tapped for a remake of Gareth Evans’ acclaimed Indonesian action movie, The Raid, for Netflix.
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