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Though the mind fairly boggles at the idea of someone other than Gareth Evans trying to replicate the sheer madness and fight design of The Raid, Hollywood’s veracious remake machine will brook no argument. Patrick Hughes is the man charged with adapting the movie, and Taylor Kitsch has been offered the lead.

As of right now, Kitsch is only ruminating on the idea, especially since he’s also considering a lead role in True Detective’s second season. Which, incidentally, is set to wrap up filming just as the newRaid kicks off production in January next year.

Out Of The Furnace script man Brad Ingelsby wrote the screenplay for the new film, about which there is still much mystery aside from it taking the basic premise of the original – a mobster and his violent thugs lay a trap for a SWAT team inside a high-rise building, a trap they must fight their way out of – and transplanting it to the US. Kitsch, if he does agree to the film, would be one of the main SWAT officers. Frank Grillo is also on board, we're guessing in a role analagous to that played by Joe Taslim in the original.

Kitsch has worked on comedy drama The Grand Seduction and lent his voice to ‘toon Almost Heroes. He’s also attached to thriller Exit 147. Hughes most recently directed The Expendables 3, which is out on August 14.

Quote: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. 

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Bay and XYZ Films will produce, and Evans will executive produce along with Range Media Partners, which reps Bay, Evans and Hughes. 
“The Raid” did modestly at the box office but still managed to spawn an equally impressive and violent sequel, “The Raid 2” from 2014. And American filmmakers have been trying to reboot the property for years now. 
“We’re incredibly excited about Patrick’s unique vision for this film. It’s a distinctly original take on the material, which promises to pay great respect to the original film while also bringing a fresh approach and perspective that will set its own course in the action genre,” the producers said in a statement.