‘Raid 3’ Possibilities Straight From the Director

They’ll probably talk it out

Can we say enough about that crazy little Indonesian action franchise known as The Raid? Apparently not. With the recent premiere of The Raid 2: Berandal at the Sundance Film Festival (and subsequent positive reception) we come to the obvious Hollywood question: will there be sequel? Well it certainly seems to be a strong possibility. Geoff Henao, writing for Ruby Hornet, was able to snag an interview with Gareth Evans, the Welsh writer and director of both Raid films (plus another Indonesia-set martial-arts pic, Merantau).

In the interview, Evans gives out some ideas he has about the potential Raid 3 – just ideas, mind you, as no level of production has started on a sequel yet.

From the interview:

It’s set three hours before The Raid 2 finishes, so there’s a key moment in The Raid 2 where we go back and revisit that scene, and as a result of that, we branch off. We go into a totally different direction. That’s as much as I can say right now. […] There are people involved in the second [film] that we expand a lot more on in the third… which is probably pretty obvious now because most of the f****** die in the second.

What that could mean for the franchise  will no doubt have fans speculating  for a while. Will it go the route of Jackie Chan’s Police Story series and produce a film in the canon with a different protagonist – as was the case with Once a Cop, aka Police Story IV, aka, Supercop 2? Will the next Raid film be a straight-up sequel or more of a spin-off? Whatever the answer, action fans should already be wetting their lips in anticipation.

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