Instead, the film would have focused more on the Goto crime family coming into conflict with their Yakuza superiors. Evans explained in a 2016 interview with Impact Online (via AICN), " Whether it was a conscious decision or not, moving back to UK felt like a closing chapter on that franchise - we ended the story pretty neatly (I feel) in Part 2." Evans also reiterated this point while promoting Apostle, stating in an interview with Slash Film, " What we did with The Raid 2, we kinda close that off nicely, so it didn’t really appeal to me to jump back into that world again".Įvans has also stated Uwais' character Rama would've had a minor role in The Raid 3 compared to its predecessors. A combination of the ending of The Raid 2 and Evans' return to the UK from Indonesia led to him moving on from The Raid 3. RELATED: Warrior's Best Fight Borrows Heavily From The RaidĮvans had already wanted to take a break from action moviemaking in the interim between The Raid 2 and The Raid 3, with his next film being the 2018 Netflix horror Apostle.
Though Evans conceived of The Raid franchise as a trilogy, The Raid 3 ultimately never happened, with a combination of factors explaining why. Its 2014 sequel The Raid 2 continued to turn the volume up with a more complex crime family plot and even wilder action.
It was with 2012's The Raid that Evans and Uwais really shook the action world up.įollowing a police raid of a Jakarta apartment complex filled with killers and psychopaths, The Raid combined the Silat-based action scenes of Merantau with the tone of a survival horror game and became an instant action classic. Evans had traveled to Indonesia to film a documentary about the martial art Silat, and after seeing Uwais' talent and screen presence, cast him as the heroic wanderer Yuda in Merantau. Why did The Raid 3 never happen after the acclaim enjoyed by its two predecessors? Director Gareth Evans made his mark on action movies with 2009's Merantau, which also marked the film debut of Iko Uwais.
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