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.
Patrick Hughes (Red Hill, The Expendables 3) is tipped to call action while Brad Ingelsby ("Out of the Furnace") wrote the adapted script.
The Purge: Anarchy star Frank Grillo revealed in June that he has already signed on for the remake.
Real life siblings Chris Hemsworth (Rush, Thor: The Dark World) and Liam Hemsworth (The Expendables 2, The Hunger Games) were "...mentioned as possible targets for the hard-hitting action movie" at one point. Ethan Hawke, Anthony Mackie and Luke Evans have also been named as potentials
The original film's director Gareth Evans will produce the redux with Aram Tertzakian Nate Bolotin and Nick Spicer.
Production is slated to begin January 2015, the same time "True Detective" season two wraps filming, and Kitsch's team has been pushing HBO and creator Nic Pizzolatto hard to cast Kitsch in the second season.
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