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THE NIGHT COMES FOR US Lands North American Distribution

Following news of its worldwide sales back in November of last year, Radius/TWC has officially now acquired the North American rights to director Timo Tjahjanto‘s latest collaborative efforts with Merantau Films and XYZ Films for the new film, The Night Comes For Us. The news arrives on the eve of the forthcoming premieres of two films from both partnering production companies, Tjahjanto‘s latest co-directorial action horror thriller, Killers with director Kimo Stamboel, and filmmaker Gareth Evans‘ upcoming sequel crime saga installment, The Raid 2: Berandal.

The Night Comes For Us sees action star Joe Taslim (The Raid, Fast And Furious 6) leading the way as a gangland enforcer named Ito who returns from a stint abroad, and is forced to deal with internal war brewing in his own local crime family while plotting its own campaign of territorial expansion. The film will reunite several names from The Raid franchise, which brings Taslim back to the set once more with actor Yayan Ruhian, with further casting info to be announced soon, and Evans directing the action. The Raid 2: Berandal lead actor Iko Uwais joins Evans solely to design the fight sequences for the film, blending Mixed Martial Arts with Indonesian martial arts style, Silat, incorporated with Taslim‘s own familiar territory in the style of Judo.

The Night Comes For Us begins filming in the next few months, and is slated for a 2015 release, while Tjahjanto‘s new film, Killers, expected to release on February 1 and 8 in Japan and Indonesia, respectively. Evans will debut his new film, The Raid 2: Berandal tomorrow night at the Sundance Film Festival before releasing the film worldwide beginning in New Zealand and Australia on March 27, followed by March 28 in Indonesia and North America courtesy of Sony Pictures and Stage 6 Films, and future dates pending.

Stay tuned for more info!

H/T: Deadline

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Joe Taslim Goes MMA In A New Fight Choreo Clip For THE NIGHT COMES FOR US

While director Timo Tjahjanto continues to promote his latest co-directorial action/horror effort with fellow “Mo Brother” Kimo Stamboel titled Killers, things are still set in motion for Tjahjanto‘s own solo contribution as helmer of the latest collaboration between Merantau Films and XYZ Films for The Night Comes For Us. Some details have already been ironed out, including the plot, where we rising international action star Joe Taslim (The Raid, Fast And Furious 6) return to form, this time portraying a Gangland Enforcer named Ito who comes home to Jakarta after a stint abroad, and is forced to deal with internal war brewing in his own local crime family while plotting its own campaign of territorial expansion.

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Gareth Evans Hints Fans On 'The Raid' Trilogy Completion

Thanks for the questions, to extend my thanks further – here’s a shot from the prison riot – it doesn’t end nicely 🙂 http://t.co/l3abbFUQk4
— Gareth Evans (@ghuwevans) December 7, 2013

On Saturday, writer and director Gareth Evans took to Twitter to share a gritty new still from the upcoming film, The Raid 2: Berandal, but not until after answering just a few questions from his followers where he was kind enough to accept a brief inquiry from Film Combat Syndicate on the proximity of time between now and the production of the previously announced third film in the self-titled franchise. While acknowledging Fajar Yuskemal and Aria Prayogi as his music composers with Joe Trapanese for the film’s soundtrack and somewhat jokingly mentioning a three-figure bodycount, Evans says the following on the trilogy…

Tweet Quote:

“@ghuwevans: “@FCSyndicate: how soon will part 3 start filming after this?” I have a basic outline for part 3 – depends on how part 2 does, maybe 2017.”

The first teaser is already online while the film is currently in post production with a new full trailer to arrive online in January, as Evans prepares to helm the Lee “Lightining” Murray heist biodrama, Breaking The Bank, as well as executive producing the American remake of The Raid (2011) from a script by Out Of The Furnace co-scribe Brad Inglesby, and assisting the April/May filming of director Timo Tjahjanto’s The Night Comes For Us with actor Joe Taslim.

Produced by PT Merantau and XYZ Films, The Raid 2: Berandal stars Iko Uwais, Donny Alamsyah, Tio Pakusadewo, Arifin Putra, Alex Abbad, Roy Marten and returning villain/actor Yayan Ruhian, along with Marsha Timothy, Julie Estelle, Very Tri Yulisman, Cecep Arif Rahman, Oka Antara and Epy Kusandar, and Japanese actors Ryuhei Matsuda, Kenuchi Endo and Kazuki Kitamura.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has multi-territorial distribution rights to the film with a North American release date to be set courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films, following the film’s Indonesian domestic release in March.

Watch the first teaser below, courtesy of Twitchfilm.

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THE NIGHT COMES FOR US Sells Worldwide!

Just six months away from principal photography, actors Joe Taslim and Yayan Ruhian, and fight choreographer Iko Uwais are running the numbers on the action sequences for producer Gareth Evans’s latest return to the set with director Timo Tjahjanto for upcoming martial arts crime thriller The Night Comes For Us. But even so, the prospects for the folks at Indonesia’s PT Merantau Films and L.A.’s XYZ Films are looking brighter and brighter.

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Fight Choreography Begins For THE NIGHT COMES FOR US

Writer and director Timo Tjahjanto shot off a few tweets on Monday after a completing the first day of choreography for the upcoming production of The Night Comes For Us. Following his previous collaboration with The Raid 1 and 2 helmer Gareth Evans now in the producers chair since scribing Tjahjanto’s Safe Haven segment in the summer 2013 horror anthology, V.H.S. 2, The Night Comes For Us brings lead actor Joe Taslim and co-star Yayan Ruhian back together in a reunion that is likely to be one of the most celebrated after their stellar performances in Evans’ The Raid, featuring the two in one of the film’s most brutal, solid and most pulse pounding action sequences ever put on film, a signature quality of the work coming from Indonesian production platform PT Merantau Films.

Described as a story of vengeance and redemption, the current synopsis for The Night Comes For Us sees Taslim taking the lead as “Ito”, a Gangland Enforcer whom after a stint with the notorious South East Asian Triad, returns to his local crime family in Jakarta only to find himself trapped in a world of betrayal and chaos as the Triad plans its bloody campaign for expanision. With the script currently full speed ahead in development and the film set to kick off shooting sometime this April or May, the bulk of the film’s hybridized fight action mingling MMA and Judo with Silat will be handled by Indonesia’s latest action star, Iko Uwais, who will appear once more as the lead in Evans’ The Raid 2: Berandal this Spring, with Ruhian returning as well.

Choreo day 1 #TheNightComesforUs http://t.co/KDbH2a33LK
— Timo Tjahjanto (@Timobros) November 11, 2013

#TheNightComesforUs choreography @iko_uwais & @Joe_Taslim : bros before hos http://t.co/wPisla0uXL
— Timo Tjahjanto (@Timobros) November 11, 2013

Production of The Night Comes For Us also comes in light of the upcoming release of Tjahjanto latest Indonesian/Japanese horror thriller, Killers, with co-director, Macabre helmer Kimo Stamboel, who is poised to steamroll production with Ruhian in his upcoming lead role in One Good Thing with fellow actor and Chilean martial arts action sensation Marko Zaror, from a script by production company XYZ Films’ own writer and producer Todd Brown of Twitchfilm. Tjahjanto and Stamboel’s Killers is set to make way to the big screen this February.

Stick around for more info as it trickles.

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Salvation Comes With A Price In A New Poster For THE NIGHT COMES FOR US

With writer/director Gareth Huw Evans’ The Raid 2: Berandal nearing the completon of its post-production since wrapping in July, PT Merantau Films will be back at it with at least two more films, each to be directed by The Mo Brothers, Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel. Tjahjanto took to Twitter on Sunday to unveil the new poster for his own upcoming production of The Night Comes For Us, for which Evans will produce and direct action sequences for Fast And Furious 6 co-star, actor Joe Taslim since starring in Evans’ 2011 thriller, The Raid (a.k.a. Seruban Maut), with co-star Yayan Ruhian coming off both The Raid and the forthcoming sequel.

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Evans' Next, THE NIGHT COMES FOR US, Gets Distribution

In a forwarded article from Screen Daily, Digital Spy reports that director Gareth Evans will be on board his next film, THE NIGHT COMES FOR US after BERANDAL (a.k.a. THE RAID: REDEMPTION) wraps filming this month. The articles state that Evans, most known for push-kicking action fans into a new era of martial arts cinema with Indonesian action vehicles, MERANTAU and the recent success of THE RAID: REDEMPTION, will serve as action director for the U.K.-based production.

In the film, Joe Taslim will star as a mob enforcer who struggles to seek atonement after inadvertantly causing a massacre. The film was previously reported as being neither a martial arts film nor a horror of any kind, with the former being a little difficult to comprehend considering Indonesian action favorite Yayan Ruhian is going to be in it as well, unless Ruhian himself is looking to evolve and stand out more dramatically as an actor, which I think is a brillant idea considering the love he has earned from action fans alike. Moreover, given the recent poster that was shared to the public, I take it that this will have some type of action in it to help showcase Taslim’s evolving nature as the industry’s next international cross-over success story, post-Jackie Chan and Jet Li, next to fellow ‘Raid’ co-star and Expendables 3 hopeful, Iko Uwais.

With the successes of all film’s mentioned, Evans and Taslim have set themselves up perfectly for what is looking to be another great year ahead in martial arts and action cinema history.

THE NIGHT COMES FOR US is slated to begin filming this fall with director Timo Tjahjanto, who is also slated to release his next film, KILLERS, later this year. XYZ Films, which is co-producing the film with Evans’ company, PT Merantau, has sold distribution rights to select territories woldwide under Sony, including North American distribution rights to Sony Pictures Classics.

Joe Taslim stars as ‘Jah’ in this week’s North American release of Fast And Furious 6, directed by Justin Lin.

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