It is hailed as one of the greatest action movies of the last few years, and its sequel is gaining rave reviews from everyone who sits down to watch it, so it was inevitable that Hollywood would come knocking, with Screen Gems announcing a remake of Gareth Evans' The Raid. XYZ Films, who produced the original, have signed on The Expendables 3 director Patrick Hughes. It's an intriguing choice, since the Sylvester Stallone action fest is only is second feature after Australian thriller Red Hill. While many will no doubt roll their eyes at yet another American remake of a classic foreign movie, which saw a lone SWAT team member fight his way through a high rise to get at a notorious drug lord, Evans will have a hand in it as an executive producer, and the original's fight choreographers are also attached, meaning the project will still retain a spark of what it it awesome. No release date has been given.
