"The Raid" Theatrical Poster
THE MOVIE: The Raid is the follow-up to writer/director Garth Evans and star Iko Uwais’ breakout Indonesian martial arts film Merantau. There’s no denying that The Raid is one of the most anticipated films of 2012 for action buffs worldwide. Sony Pictures Classic is releasing the movie as The Raid: Redemption in North American theaters on March 23, 2012.
THE TRAILER: AICN has posted an awesome U.S. trailer!
UPDATES: Theatrical Poster and characters Iko | Ray | Yayan | Joe | Donnie | Pierre Check out the trailer. THR notes that Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda is changing the score. Q&A with director Gareth Evans and stars Iko Uwais and Joe Taslim. Watch Parts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 – THR confirms the remake is official. 2nd trailer now available. Check out this gruesome clip. Here’s a 2nd clip called “Four-On-One.” Twitch reports that Sony has pre-bought the US rights to the sequel to The Raid, titled Berandal. AICN reports that The Raid sequel will receive the localized name The Raid: Retaliation when it eventually arrives here in the States. Twitch has the final American poster for the film. Apparently, the subtitle Redemption is to help prepare US audiences for The Raid series to become an eventual trilogy. In addition to the quality Apple Quicktime trailer, we also get a featurette.
Five new bone-crunching clips in celebration of the film playing at SXSW this year. Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter offersword of a sequel with a much bigger budget, a 100 day shoot, and possible plans for a sequel. The Raid: Redemption soundtrack is now available for purchase. AICN has posted a very cool interview with director Gareth Evans; and composers Mike Shinoda and Joe Trapanes.
BREAKING NEWS: The Blu-ray and DVD are now available for pre-order!
Someone who saw the movie at Midnight Madness tweeted last night that this movie is like the “Oldboy” hallway fight or the one-take restaurant scene from “The Protector” – for 90 minutes.
lol! I hope not! I recently re-watched that Old Boy fight scene and thought it was so so. I guess it only makes an impression on you when you first see it and aren’t expecting it.
As far THE RAID… holy crap. Good stuff. I can’t wait. One of the best trailers I’ve seen in years. Hope the movie holds up just as badass.
The fact that they have Mike Shinoda doing the music actually has me hopeful that Sony is gonna release this sucker in theaters overhear. If it played in Toronto you know it’s already subtitled so the hard part of bringing it to the West is over.
I think the hallway fight scene from Oldboy was more of an emotional rawness than it is a ,” Wow that was a freaking awesome Martial Arts choreography type stuff.” When I watch a Tony Jaa movie, I get that Wow factor, that feeling when you see someone get knocked out in a fight and you just feel glee with excitement…
Seen one too many Call of Duty clips online, so that trailer ain’t doing it for me. Would rather get more of a story-oriented preview than a “best of” teaser reel.
Yeah the trailer looks like a fan edit with Hype music… Is this an official trailer or Teaser??? Either way I’m dying to see another movie from Indonesia that utilizes “Silat.” Big Big fan of “Merantau”, I can watch that movie on a loop for days…
I heard it was a teaser. Seems like one. Very loose, but still awesome. Of course Sony will be coming out with their own trailer. This movie doesn’t open officially in Indonesia until early 2012, so we have a long ass time to wait. 🙁 I’m a big of Merantau as well. That in Ip Man are easily the best martial arts films of the last 10 years.
EXPENDABLES 2 eAT your heart out.and Hong Kong better tighten up and hire more mainlanders to star in movies cause the Thais,Vietnamese,and Indonesians are catching up
this movie will be awesome if Billy Chong made an appearance.
Redemption in the title??? The Raid sounds more straight to your face no time for a breather ass kicking of a title.. Why add more words to an already awesome title for a movie??? It’s whatever, I don’t give a shit anymore…
lol i agree. but man, I’m just happy this thing is coming to theaters. I find it odd that they’re remaking it. oh well, I’m just glad (hope) to see Evans getting a fat check.
Man I’m tired of waiting for this. I looked at my theater and it’s not playing there, damn. The wait seems eternal, It needs to come out soon!
I hear you. It starts playing at one theater here on 4/06. I’ll be making the trek for that.
If you guys know me from kung fu cinema boards then you know that I already saw this film and have been praising it ever since.. Here’s my input, Gareth Evans is my favorite working director right now!!!!! He would shit on any Hollywood director and make them his bitches!!!! Look at his fucking filmography right now as it stands, ‘Merantau and ‘The Raid:Redemption.’ You wanna know where and why the redemption comes into play??? He muthafucking redeemed himself from being just another run of the mill action director to becoming a muthafucking pimp director in the likes of John Woo… Saw this movie twice already, I’m bout to go watch this movie for the 3rd time with an urban audience, (Meaning Black People) it’s gonna be a rock and roll good time!!!! Oh and The Expendables 2 can suck my fucking dick with Chuck Norris mustache on top…. Asian Cinema is here to stay folks!!!!!
Ok you can keep you’re Chuck Norris bashing on KungFoolcinema site. In the meantime I’ll be watching the good flicks, while filtering out the bad.