Brad Ingelsby To Script ‘Raid’ Remake For Screen Gems

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• I wonder if any Asian-American writers were up for this assignment.

  Comment by Lisa — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 4:12pm PST  Reply to this post

  • You’re aware that Gareth Evans, the writer/director of the original, is Welsh and not Asian, right? So like…why does the ethnicity of the writer matter?

    Comment by seriously? — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 4:29pm PST  Reply to this post

    • So another white guy taking advantage of the Asian community? Is that what you’re saying? I think Lisa was talking about an Asian movie about Asian people set in the Asian world… shouldn’t the writer of the American remake be and Asian-American? If Hollywood is very pro-diversity, Lisa is asking, AS AM I, will Hollywood finally put their money where their mouth is.

      Comment by Ben — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 5:22pm PST  Reply to this post

      • Who says the remake is even gonna have anything to do with the Asian community? Chances are if they’re spending a lot of money to remake it in America, they’re not making the leads Asian so, don’t quite get the point.

        Comment by Huh?? — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 7:01pm PST  Reply to this post

• This is stupid. A remake isn’t going to capture the originality or ferocity of the first film . The whole point of a moviegoing experience is to stumble upon little treasures like The Raid that completely knock you on your ass. But trying to “reengineer” that experience so the actors can now speak English is so contrived and lame.

  Comment by Come on already — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 5:13pm PST  Reply to this post

  • If The Raid knocked you on your ass you must be sitting on one rickety chair. The action was above average, but what a dumb story. This one is for action aficionados only.

    Comment by Jake — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 9:43pm PST  Reply to this post

• The original and the remake are going to be the most overrated movies of the year. The clips were downright horrible, nothing amazing. It’s all hype from Sony.

  Comment by Roger C. — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 5:14pm PST  Reply to this post

• Brad is such a good idea for this its scary. I CANT WAIT.

  Comment by NT — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 5:37pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Terrifying, even.

    Comment by Walter — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 7:59pm PST  Reply to this post

• Even more important than his ethnicity, let’s hope when he rewrites the script he actually makes the story good instead of the terrible storyline in the original. Great action. Dumb story… even for an action film.

  Also, second the fact that the original writer is a white dude from Wales, so the OP should stop thinking racially.

  Comment by Jake — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 6:20pm PST  Reply to this post

  • yeah, but he’s a white guy who took advantage of Asians by choosing to make a movie that employed Asians and starred Asians and brought money to the local economy during production. How dare he give jobs and opportunities to Asians. Clearly he should’ve found some of the ex-pat whities still hanging out in Hong Kong and took advantage of them instead.

    Comment by Duh — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 7:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• Umm, he did a doc about Silat and Indonesia culture and then did two films with some of the Silat experts he met. It was the first Indonesian action film since the seventies. He has basically re started Indonesian action films with some friends he met there.

  You should really give up your myopic and racist view of humanity. Even though The Raid and Merentau are mediocre stories with great action, a whole lot of Indonesians are going to have a career now thanks to this filmmaker. And that should be applauded. Do some research before commenting please.

  Comment by Jake — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 9:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• Disregard my reply. My sarcasm meter was down for a few minutes there. Sorry, Duh.

  Comment by Jake — Friday February 3, 2012 @ 11:33pm PST  Reply to this post

• Yes, but the point is that the “filmmaking” was the cool part, so unless it is a shot for shot remake with the same or better crew and stunt people, it’s pointless. Like, just put out the original, let people enjoy that, and then move on to Gareth’s next film. You’re right, the story is minimal, but that was the goal in highlighting the kinetic action set pieces. So, the remake goal is to “recapture” the energy of the original’s action… but with a deeper story that is in English? How stupid is that?

  Comment by Come on already — Saturday February 4, 2012 @ 7:31am PST  Reply to this post

• The best action movies have great stories and characters to go along with the action. So if Sony remakes The Raid with some actual character development and a decent story, that’s totally worth it. If they just remake it, then I agree with you. That’s worthless because the movie is barely worth seeing now. The action is on par with a Tony Jaa film. And I disagree with your thought that the “filmmaking” is great. The action choreography and cinematography is great. Great filmmaking includes telling a great story with interesting characters. This film totally fails in those categories. So, no, the filmmaking is not great in this movie.

  Comment by Jake — Saturday February 4, 2012 @ 11:40am PST  Reply to this post

• The best part of the original film is the action/martial arts – which is off the charts amazing. But that level of action can’t be replicated, and it sounds like Screen Gems understands that. Bringing on a writer of Ingelsby’s caliber should help make the remake great in other ways: story, characters, etc.

  Comment by Howie — Saturday February 4, 2012 @ 3:03pm PST  Reply to this post