'The Raid' to obtain follow up treatment

Indonesian actioner "The Raid" is returning like a follow up.Producers take presctiption track to start production for the finish of the year in Jakarta with Iko Uwais coming back to star and Gareth Huw Evans to direct. The film is going to be created by Evans through his PT Merantau Films and La-based Abc Films.Producers stated the sequel's tentatively entitled "Berendal" for that Indonesian market along with a "considerably bigger" budget compared to original."The Raid" follows a top-notch SWAT team assigned with raiding an impenetrable safe house deep in the middle of Jakarta's slums. Because the mission rapidly falls apart, the squad finds themselves stranded within the building and playing no choice but to accomplish the mission by fighting their way to avoid it.Piece particulars from the follow up are now being stored under systems. Shooting's likely to take 100 days."The Raid" had its U.S. premiere at Sundance and won the Night time Madness Award following its world premiere in the Toronto Intl. Film Festival in September. It will likewise be playing in the South by Southwest Festival in Austin in March.The new sony Pictures Classics is delivering "The Raid" within the Uniited States on March 23 and Screen Gems is developing an British-language remake which Abc Films can also be creating.Worldwide sales for that follow up are now being handled by Celluloid Bad dreams, the foreign sales partnership between Abc Films and Celluloid Dreams. Pre-sales happen to be going ahead with The new sony Pictures Worldwide Purchases Group obtaining distribution privileges for that U . s . States, Latin America and The country. Alliance/Momentum has pre-bought for that Uk and Canada Koch Media has acquired the film for German speaking areas Korea Screen has pre-bought Korea and HGC has pre-bought China.Follow up is available in the Berlin Film Festival. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com