Frank Grillo Explains Why Production Halted on The Raid Remake
John Squires
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Screen Gems began developing an English-language remake of Indonesian fight flick The Raid a couple years back, and filming was set to begin last September. As we reported, those plans fell through when pre-production was halted, and now we know why. Read on.
In an interview with Slash Film, Frank Grillo (The Purge: Anarchy) explained why the cameras never rolled last year, revealing that a casting issue is to blame for the delay.
“The Raid was a go movie and there was one character, the critical character, that they were just not happy with,” said Grillo. “There’s not a lot of 30-something guys out there that… there’s a lot of training, a lot of martial arts training. They weren’t going to remake The Raid, which is a beloved film, if they couldn’t find a guy who could find the physical stuff and they hadn’t been able to do that. So I think we’re going to come back around after I’m done with the second 10 [episodes of ‘Kingdom’]. We’re going to come back around to that.”
Grillo will play one of three main characters in the American remake of The Raid, which Patrick Hughes is presumably still attached to direct. Brad Ingelsby penned the script.
In the 2011 original, an elite Indonesian S.W.A.T. team raids a building where a gangster and his thugs are embedded and chaos ensues. The remake will have a similar storyline.
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