A new take on the cult 2012 martial arts film “The Raid: Redemption” is coming to Netflix from producers Michael Bay and the original film’s director Gareth Evans.
Bay and Evans will team on the new feature, and they’ve set Patrick Hughes (“The Hitman’s Bodyguard”) to direct.
The original “The Raid,” written and directed by Evans and released in 2012, premiered to raves at Sundance and TIFF in 2011 and was heralded for its hyper-kinetic and violent action sequences and unrelenting pacing. The film followed an Indonesian S.W.A.T. team trapped inside a tenement run by a mobster who sends his endless army of killers and thugs to stop them from climbing to the top of the building.