The new Raid movie isn’t strictly a remake, director Patrick Hughes said. The upcoming film will be set in Philadelphia’s “Badlands” and will follow an undercover DEA task force on the hunt for the city’s kingpin.
“It’s not a remake as such, it’s a reimagining and it’s taking what was so incredibly crazy with that hook. It’s very detailed real world in that. Getting into the straight action thriller, but it’s at that level of saga and It’s a project that I’m very, very excited about,” Hughes told ComicBook.com. (opens in a new tab).
“I’m not allowed to say much, but it’s something we’re really into… I’m excited because I’m coming off a great streak of doing action comedies and I love that genre and I’m certainly going to be working on it.” [in] in the future, but for now, I have two projects and the other one is a big action movie, sci-fi, horror, thriller, survival, epic,” he continued. “There’s just a couple of different genres that I want to get into for a while and then I’ll go back to action comedy because it’s also so much fun to work on.”
Michael Bay is producing the new movie, but no casting information has been announced yet. The original Raid, which has quickly established itself as an Indonesian action classic, was directed and written by Gareth Evans, who is on board for the new movie as an executive producer.
The Raid doesn’t have a release date yet, but it’s headed to Netflix. While you wait, check out our roundup of the best Netflix movies streaming right now.
