‘The Force Awakens’ Non-News: Three actors from ‘The Raid’ are in the flick
LISTEN. At least I ain’t like one of them-there Movie Sites making money off of non-news, trying to dress my post up as anything other than me frantically tugging my fanboy force-phallus. Okay? Three actors from The Raid are in The Force Awakens and no one knows what the fuck they’re doing in the movie. Some speculate they are choreographing an action sequence. CAN YOU FUCKING IMAGINE?
This is an unexpected yet awesome piece of Star Wars news to kick off the year of The Force Awakens. Twitch is reporting that three of the main actors from Gareth Evans’ The Raid and The Raid 2 have roles in J.J. Abrams‘ Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The actors in question are the lead actor Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian (who played Mad Dog and Prakoso in the films) and Cecep Arif Rahman, who played “The Assassin” and fought in the kitchen finale of the sequel (seen above right, with Uwais).
Nothing beyond that is known but /Film sources have hinted to us one of the film’s action sequences might have been choreographed by the team. Read more about The Raid Star Wars news below.
Twitchfilm posted the report. And if there’s any site that would know about The Raid stars, it’s Twitch. Their editor Todd Brown is a producer on both films so this is about as rock-solid as you can get. The only way it would be any more factual is if Lucasfilm posted about it, but that hasn’t happened yet.
So what will Uwais, Ruhian and Rahman be doing in the movie? On screen, each has proved they can work not only with martial arts but all matter of weapons so you have to think they’ll be in a big action scene. But they’re important behind the scenes too. Uwais and Ruhian choreographed the films, so it’s very possible they were hired both to act and work out a scene. That, of course, remains unconfirmed but is what our sources told us. One of the action scenes will be choreographed by the guys behind The Raid
My dick will break if they’ve really choreographed a scene. It will.