Planning For The Raid 2 Final Fight Alone Took Six Weeks

For some perspective on how big The Raid 2: Berandal (2014) is actually going to be, you’d need only consider how many hours were put into planning the final fight.  Or how many weeks, or months even.  1.5 months to be exact.  1.5 months planning one fight.  That’s according to director Gareth Evans (see Tweet below).  Stallone said he wanted to ‘out-raid The Raid’ with The Expendables 3.  Not likely.

Consider that the fight scene between Jason Statham and Scott Adkins in The Expendables 2 was given only one day (maybe two) of preparation.  This was while Adkins had a busted knee, so he really should’ve been afforded more time.  Same thing again from Avi Lerner for The Expendables 3, there appears to be a lot of cut corners.  So while The Expendables 3 (the finale at least) may be ‘inspired’ by The Raid, I seriously doubt it’ll get close.