"I haven't dismissed it outright," Evans teases of turning the influential series into a trilogy. Don't give up hope, Raid fans — a third installment isn't dead yet. Gareth Edwards, the director behind 2011's highly influential The Raid and its 2014 follow-up,

In the modern action movie canon, Gareth Evans' "The Raid" and "The Raid 2" are seminal works. They helped put the Indonesian martial art of Pencak Silat on the world map, and established Evans as an endlessly inventive filmmaker both in terms of fight choreography and cinematography.

Even before the "John Wick" movies stepped up to revitalize a flagging action genre that was increasingly inundated with CGI set pieces, director Gareth Evans was over in Indonesia crafting some of the craziest action scenes audiences had ever seen with "The Raid.