Sony and director Patrick Hughes exit The Raid remake

Grillo, we’re guessing, would have had something like the Joe Taslim role. Read about The Raid remake below. This one seems to pass the smell test, but keep in mind we don’t have any official confirmation yet. However, if The Tracking Board is to be believed, that’s exactly what has happened to the United States remake of The Raid. On top of that, it is claimed that Screen Gems has pulled out of production, leaving XYZ Films as the lone production company still attached to the project. Evans is still attached as an executive producer on the remake. The first film centers on a special-ops SWAT force tasked with infiltrating a high-rise that’s been taken over by a drug lord and his unsafe crew. After the drug lord is tipped off about the raid, the lights are shut off and the exits are closed off. The squad then gets trapped on the sixth floor and have to fight their way through all of the criminals in the building. Indeed, prior to today’s disheartening nugget, action star Frank Grillo previously hinted that The Raid would leap in front of the cameras by early 2015, jump-starting a production that was in no way intending to simply mirror the style of Gareth Evans’ hit original. A couple of months ago, Grillo revealed to us that casting was the holdup on the film. Neither movie made a huge splash at the box office, with The Raid: Redemption earning $4.1 million and The Raid 2 taking in $2.6 million, but, although neither received a wide release, each movie was critically-acclaimed. There’s not a lot of 30-something guys out there that… there’s a lot of training, a lot of martial arts training. So I think we’re going to come back around after I’m done with the second 10 [episodes of Kingdom].