"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.

It’s been over a decade since The Raid 2 landed with a bone-crunching bang, and ever since, fans have been asking the same question: will The Raid 3 ever happen? Director Gareth Evans has usually played it coy,