'The Raid' remake is put on hold
It doesn't really take that much thought to come to the realisation that a remake of Gareth Evans' Indonesian action film The Raid is a pretty bad idea.
The real attraction of the original isn't the story, but rather the absolutely stunning stunt work and fight choreography performed by the cast. Knowing that no mainstream Hollywood actor could pull off the moves seen in Evans' film makes one wonder why a studio would think that a remake would work. Finally, it seems like the folks at Screen Gems are starting to understand this, as their plans for an American version of The Raid have been put on hold.
While production on the remake was scheduled to start this September, Variety is reporting that the project has been given the red light and that all pre-production work has stopped. While this certainly isn't good news for the movie, the studio is apparently confident that the film can get made and is hoping to have production part sometime in the first three months of 2015. This presumably means that the earliest we will actually get to see a finished product would be sometime in 2016.
