American Remake of THE RAID: REDEMPTION being developed

Hollywood is about to get its hands on Gareth Evans' Indonesian Martial Arts Masterpiece THE RAID: REDEMPTION and develop a Hollywood Remake for it. According to Bleeding Cool, an American remake has been in the works with Sony for a while now with the original’s director, Gareth Evans, attached as an executive producer. And this week, we learned that Jon and Erich Hoeber (both writers of Battleship and Red 2, two of Hollywood's most childishly awful movies), are in the early stages of rewriting the script.
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THE RAID 2 is in production and is now filming

THE RAID was one of the surprise hits of 2012 and has instantly kicked its way into action cinema history as one of the best action flicks ever made, not to mention, elevated the reputation of Indonesian cinema. Soon after the movie was exported to international cinemas and to Hollywood, its producers and director Gareth Evans had announced that a sequel will be made. And indeed production and filming has already begun.[read the rest of the article after the jump]