THE RAID Remake Moves Forward with Director Joe Carnahan and Frank Grillo

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A remake of The Raid, which is one of the most badass action film franchises ever, has been in and out of development since 2014. I haven't heard anything regarding the film since it lost its director, star, and studio. I just assumed that meant the project was dead, but that's not the case at all. 

It's been announced that Joe Carnahan (Smokin' Aces, The A-Team, The Grey) will be directing the film and that Frank Grillo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) is still on board to star in the film. The news came in a series of tweets below. The first comes from XYZ Films, which included a video of Carnahan and Grillo watching The Raid while making light and casual commentary.

💥 BIG NEWS WEDNESDAY💥 #TheRaid @carnojoe #FrankGrillo pic.twitter.com/ALhgZWgafq

— XYZ Films (@XYZFilms) February 15, 2017

Directing & Producing. https://t.co/C3D4FxdDkl

— Joe Carnahan (@carnojoe) February 15, 2017

Carnahan is a fun director who has made some very crazy and wild films, but the original Raid movies are near perfect action films, and there's no way he'll be able to live up to the standard that those films set in terms of action and fight sequences. Carnahan attempts to ease the minds of fans by explaining what he plans on doing with the film.

In the tweets below he explains that the tone of the film will be closer to films such as The Grey and Narc. He then says that the film is not a remake, but a "reimagining of the same scenario," which sounds like a remake to me. 

He tells everyone to take a deep breath and that he won't disappoint us. Here are those tweets:

THE RAID remake will hew closer in tone & feel to THE GREY and NARC.@Ghuevans is producing alongside & has given us his full blessing.

— Joe Carnahan (@carnojoe) February 15, 2017

It's not a remake. It's a reimagining of the same scenario.
Everybody take a deep breath.
We won't disappoint you, rabid-fanboy-from-Hell. https://t.co/ShPcXmng5n

— Joe Carnahan (@carnojoe) February 15, 2017

The thing is, if the movie isn't as good as The Raid and doesn't hit those high standards of action, it will be a disappointment to the rabid fanboys from hell. Hey, I hope he ends up giving us a badass movie! It's just going to be really hard to top what's already been done. 

Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3) was originally supposed to direct the remake, and there's no work on if the story he planned on making will be the same one Carnahan is making. That story was previously described as follows:

"Certainly, we're not there to recreate that film beat for beat, with the set up we're following a DEA task team, which was implemented by the Bush administration after September 11th when they realized that terrorism and the drug trade were so closely aligned. So they set up a DEA task team that's six units and they work across borders and sort of act like Navy SEALS. You never read about it, you never hear about it, but they go on these missions. So that's a really interesting take and a really nice premise and also what's interesting on this take on it is the clash of cultures and the clash of martial arts, the fighting styles, which is something that's going to be a lot of fun when we've really started pre-vizzing stuff."

Carnahan is definitely a better choice to direct the film than Hughes, but do you think Carnahan has what it takes to make the fans of the original films happy with his reimagining?