Christine's militia, these guerrilla kids, would be taking care of this Japanese intrusion on their land. The idea is this Japanese kill squad that’s used to the streets of Tokyo suddenly have to deal with the terrain of a jungle-hunt, a bit like Predator in a way. She's providing protection for Goto because they go way back, she's the one who introduced him to Jakarta in the first place.
“Goto arranges to meet up with this old mafia boss (played by) Christine Hakim, who has trained killers in her jungle retreat. “They go off into hiding, all the way to the jungles of West Java,” the filmmaker explains. With the action then set to follow Goto after the Yakuza attack, Evans would have taken the story into an all-new location: the Indonesian jungle. Goto has no idea that this right-hand man has betrayed him and set him up for the ambush.” This is fucking crazy, what do I do?' The call from HQ is, 'Keep him still, keep him close, we'll send people to take care of it, and if you do that for us, you can take over his turf.' The attack goes wrong – it's a kill squad from Japan who have turned up and taken out the Gotos. The idea was that the right-hand man, after being told to kill off all the politicians and cops and wipe the clean slate, would call back to Tokyo to the big huge boss, and be like, 'Goto's going fucking nuts. Goto, his son, and his right-hand man are the only remaining survivors from that attack, and it cuts to credits and says 'The Raid 3'. And you stay with the Japanese gang, who are like, 'What the fuck do we do now? Everyone's dead, we've got no-one to kill.' They get into their car, and as they're driving along all of a sudden this other car rocks up alongside them and just blitzes them, and the cars crash. He walks away to Bunawar, who'll be waiting for him in his car, he gets in and drives away. “ The Raid 3 would begin with Rama coming out of that building after having killed everybody and saying 'No, I'm done'. “The story was going to go back in time to the moment in The Raid 2 when the Goto Gang, the Japanese gang, are having a meeting, and Goto tells his right-hand man to take care of it, wipe out every corrupt cop and politician that they have on the books and start fresh,” says Evans. With The Raid 2 significantly opening up the world of the series, a sprawling crime epic bringing in rival warring gangs, Evans’ plans for The Raid 3 would have delved into another corner of the Asian criminal underworld.
“It’s a very convenient last line of dialogue to have,” Evans laughs. Take some responsibility and be a father for a change!’” As it turns out, Rama’s final line at the end of The Raid 2, ‘I’m done’, proved prophetic. It just can't, because if he does something to pull himself away from his poor fucking wife and kid again, I'd be like, ‘Hmm, you sort of deserve to die now really. “I couldn't fathom of another fucking reason why he would put his life at risk and separate himself from his fucking wife and kid again,” he admits. Speaking on a new Empire Spoiler Special Podcast – with Evans offering a retro look back at the original 2011 The Raid – the filmmaker opened up about why Rama wouldn’t have led The Raid 3. But while Uwais’ Rama was the focal point of both Raid movies, the director reveals that the character wouldn’t have led the mooted (and mostly likely now abandoned) third entry in the series. With his pair of brutal Indonesian martial arts classics, Welsh director Gareth Evans pushed the boundaries of stunt work, fight choreography, and action photograpy, raising the bar with wince-worthy beatdowns, and making an international star of lead actor Iko Uwais.
Few action movies have had as seismic an impact on audiences (and the industry) as The Raid and The Raid 2.
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