U.S. Remake Of "The Raid" Gets Director; Will Hemsworth's Star?

Australian filmmaker Patrick Hughes (Red Hill, The Expendables 3 is in negotiations to direct the remake of the 2011 Indonesian action film "The Raid" reports The Wrap.

The original film followed an Indonesian S.W.A.T. team tasked with storming a building where a violent gangster and his thugs operate controlling the lives of innocent people. A young cop is also on a personal mission – to rescue his drug-dealing brother from the chaos inside.

Casting hasn't begun yet, but real life siblings Chris Hemsworth (Rush, Thor: The Dark World) and Liam Hemsworth (The Expendables 2, The Hunger Games) "have been mentioned as possible targets for the hard-hitting action movie".

 Brad Ingelsby ("Out of the Furnace") wrote the adapted script.

The original film's director Gareth Evans will produce the redux.

Meantime the official U.S. poster for the original film's sequel The Raid 2: Berandal  is now online via Twitter.