John Carter Star Taylor Kitsch Linked To Lead Role In The Raid Remake

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John Carter and Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch has reportedly been offered the lead role for the Hollywood remake of The Raid.

According to The Wrap, Kitsch is in negotiations for the Screen Gems' remake of The Raid, though financial terms haven't been ironed out yet. The action flick is supposedly planned to closely follow the original, in which an Indonesian SWAT team invades a large apartment building to take out a crime lord. However, they get trapped inside during the mission.

Expendables 3 director Patrick Hughes is lined up to helm The Raid remake, with the script penned by Brad Ingelsby (Out of the Furnace). Shooting of the action film is scheduled to begin in January, which would allow Kitsch to still possibly join season two of True Detective. There are talks of him starring in the HBO show alongside Colin Farrell.
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  • Stomp Johnson
    Stomp Johnson Members, Writer Posts: 3,623 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    In before the tacked-on love interest storyline that was nowhere present in the original.
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  • vagrant-718
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    This movie don't need a remake and if anything new judge dredd had same concept
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  • MR.CJ
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    Boooooo
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  • Colin$mackabi$h
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    edited August 2014
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    MR.CJ wrote: »
    Boooooo

    This. Aint nobody ? with Rama and Mad Dog right now.
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  • Juttythe3rd
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    its funny i been on a friday night lights marathon
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  • VIBE
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    Black_Samson wrote: »
    Why?

    Watch mad dog be a methed out Jamaican...

    Here, it's ready for you to use when you need it...

    i_told_you_so_stephen_colbert.gif
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  • atribecalledgabi
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    i generally don't have a problem with remakes but this is just ? . what american martial arts/MMA stars that wouldn't lose to cardboard in an acting role are there to carry this?

    plus the raid pretty much just came out. it's still fresh. tf is the point of a remake
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  • lazypakman
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    Hollywood knows when it comes to films like the original that there is a broader audience they can pull in and money to be made, despite the series already having what seems like a large fanbase.but it probably isn't as big as you would believe thanks to people who don't have the brain capacity to read, watch and understand at the same time (who the remake is essentially for.)

    this ain't nothing new, when j-horror had it's little fad back in the day and 'the ring' remake blew up studios started going ham on foreign properties, which led to a bunch of pretty awful movies which somehow made quite a lot of money until j-horror its self ran out of ideas and they were forced to look elsewhere.and then instead of remaking films they just started snatching all the talent from these countries, which doesn't bother me as much because there's talent in these people that deserves to shine.
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  • BangEm_Bart
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    Man, hollywood is wack as ? . These ? are disrespectful to every race, culture and are a reflection of the US stealing everyone's idea. You can't make a remake of a cult classic that's still in production, NOO.

    I want to find these producers, directors and beat the ? out of everyone of them.
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  • Tymoney19
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    There's no way this remake matches the original the concept in America don't make sense everybody out here packing heat not fighting.
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  • BangEm_Bart
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    Exactly, this is ? and I don't think Gareth Evans gives a ? cause it's not his movies and corny ass Americans are paying him rather than having originality.
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  • playmaker88
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    you know whats crazy the Raid 2 Made less a than 3 million in box office smdh

    Still havent seen it.. watches now
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  • VIBE
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    You still haven't seen it? Jesus...
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  • TheNightKing
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    vagrant-718 wrote: »
    This movie don't need a remake and if anything new judge dredd had same concept

    Quoted for emphasis. Dredd was pretty much what this movie will be, but PG-13 instead of R. Hasn't Taylor learned from his other flops?
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