Operation Invasion is as close to a standard bearer as there is in the world of modern action cinema. Released in 2011, the film launched the careers of director Gareth Evans and star Iko Uwais, who played a rookie cop infiltrating a building controlled by a drug kingpin.
A sequel was released in 2014. Evans thought about making Big Break 3, but that sequel never happened. Meanwhile, various Hollywood actors have spent years trying to turn Operation Invasion into an English-language remake.
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Now that project has new momentum with Netflix getting involved with a remake of The Invasion that none other than Michael Bay will produce. The director will be Patrick Hughes, who previously directed The Expendables 3.
Here's how Deadline describes the plot of the Americanized version of Operation Invasion:
'Hollywood has been trying to remake the title since its launch and this looks to be the one that will finally make it into production. This version is set in the drug-infested "Badlands" of Philadelphia, where an undercover task force climbs a ladder of cartel informants to catch an elusive kingpin.'
With the right cast and, more importantly, the right stunt crew and stunts, it's easy to imagine an American version of The Raid becoming a huge hit on Netflix.
If you've spent any time there, you know that its catalog is full of gritty action films, some of them very lukewarm and some of them very good. With the exception of Extraction, Netflix doesn't have an action franchise to call their own. A really good version of The Raid could be Netflix's calling card in that realm for years to come.