Title: The Raid 2
Content:  Writer-director Gareth Evans decided to make the sequel after The Raid hit at the box office. He saw it as an opportunity to receive funding for a script he wrote in 2009, Berandal, which he had trouble funding for two years. Berandal was originally conceived as a standalone action drama film which incorporates bigger action scenes and according to Evans tells the story of "a young guy who goes into prison, befriends the son of a mob boss, comes out, joins him as an enforcer and then has to survive a gang war". After The Raid, Evans began significantly rewriting the Berandal script to connect its storyline with that of the first film; the process included tweaking the protagonist's character motivation and adding a police procedural subplot.
Title: Raid (2018 film)
Content:  Raid is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language crime film based on the real life income-tax raid conducted by the officers of the Income Tax Department on Sardar Inder Singh in the 1980s. The raid distinguished itself from others for being the longest raid in Indian history, lasting three days and two nights. Directed by Raj Kumar Gupta, it was backed by T-Series and Panorama Studios. Raid stars Ajay Devgn, Saurabh Shukla and Ileana D'Cruz in lead roles. Raid was released in worldwide cinemas on 16 March 2018. Raid received generally positive reviews from critics and audience. Its lifetime global gross collection of ₹153.62 crore against a budget of ₹42 crore, making it critically and commercially successful. Co-producer Bhushan Kumar declared in April 2020 that Raid will be continued as a franchise of multiple films.
Title: The Raid (2011 film)
Content:  A few months after Sony acquired the film's North American distribution rights, it was announced by The Hollywood Reporter that its subsidiary company, Screen Gems, had begun negotiations to produce a Hollywood remake. The deal was completed in November 2011, with writer-director Gareth Evans to serve as an executive producer of the remake. XYZ Films, executive producers on the original Indonesian version, will be producers on the American version. Screen Gems also wants the same choreographers from The Raid involved with the remake. On 21 February 2014, the studio picked Patrick Hughes to direct the remake. Day later, reports stated that both Chris and Liam Hemsworth were being eyed for roles by the studio. On 27 May 2014, Variety reported that the film's production was delayed until early 2015. On 13 June 2014, Frank Grillo was the first to be 
Title: The Raid (2011 film)
Content:  The Raid (initially intended to be released as Serbuan Maut, lit. The Deadly Raid ) is a 2011 Indonesian action thriller film written, directed and edited by the Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans. The film stars Iko Uwais, who previously worked with Evans in another action film, Merantau, released in 2009. In the film, an elite squad is tasked to infiltrate a high-rise building run by a ruthless drug lord in the slums of Jakarta; among them is Rama (played by Uwais), a rookie member of the team. After its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), The Raid received positive reviews from critics. The name of the film was 
Title: The Raid (2011 film)
Content:  Director Gareth Evans came across the idea for the film when he moved to Indonesia to film a documentary about the country's martial art Pencak Silat, as suggested by his wife of Indonesian Japanese descent. It was in that country that he met Iko Uwais, a Silat practitioner who was then working as a delivery man for a phone company based in Jakarta. Evans then nudged his wife to cast Uwais for Merantau, and then in The Raid. Following Merantau, Evans and his producers began work on a Silat film project called Berandal (Indonesian for Thugs), a large-scale prison gangster film intended to star not only Merantau actors Uwais and Yayan Ruhian but also an 
Title: Raid (2018 film)
Content: Ajay Devgn as Amay Patnaik, IRS Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax ; Ileana D'Cruz as Malini Patnaik, Amay's wife ; Saurabh Shukla as Rameshwar "Ramji" Singh a.k.a. "Tauji" ; Amit Sial as Lallan Sudheer Singh, Sr Tax Assistant ; Devas Dixit as Shashi Singh, Tara's husband ; Gayathri Iyer as Mukta Yadav, Tax Assistant ; Sheeba Chaddha as Prabha ; Saanand Verma as Suraj Singh ; Sulagna Panigrahi as Tara, Shashi's wife ; Geeta Agarwal as Reema ; Amit Bimrot as Satish Mishra Income tax inspector ; Ravi Khanvilakar as Rakesh Singh ; Pravin Singh Sisodia as Anubhav Singh ; Pushpa Joshi as Amma ji ; Saurabhi Singh as Jaya ; Simran Nisha as Sushma ; Prakash Bajpai as Ramu Kaka ; Manju Shukla as Kaki ; Udayvir Singh as "Shyam Bihari Lal", Director General of Income Tax ; Flora Jacob as Prime Minister ; Anil Rastogi as Finance Minister Raman Kumar ; R.C. Pathak as Chief Minister ; Ajay Singh as IT officer 
Title: The Raid 2
Content:  The Raid 2 (The Raid 2: Berandal; ザ・レイド Gokudo) is a 2014 Indonesian action crime film written, directed and edited by the Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans. It is the sequel to the 2011 film The Raid and stars Iko Uwais, Arifin Putra, Oka Antara, Tio Pakusadewo, Alex Abbad, Julie Estelle, Ryuhei Matsuda, Kenichi Endō, and Kazuki Kitamura. The film was released in the United States and Canada by Sony Pictures Classics on 28 March 2014. In the story, special forces officer Rama is sent undercover to expose the corrupt police officials colluding with the crime families of Jakarta's criminal underworld. Like Evans' previous films Merantau and The Raid, the fight scenes showcase the Indonesian fighting style of pencak silat.
Title: Raid (2003 film)
Content: Kai Lehtinen as Raid ; Mari Rantasila as Tarja ; Oiva Lohtander as Police Lieutenant Jansson ; Kirsti Väänänen as Sergeant Susisaari ; Pekka Huotari as Police Sergeant Huusko ; Juha Muje as Sundman ; Markku Maalismaa as Horseman (Ratsumies) ; Harry Baer as Mark Hollander ; Lia Boysen as Venla ; Jorma Tommila as French Foreign Legionary ; Seppo Kulmala as Ponytail (Poninhäntä) ; Erik Kiviniemi as Scarface (Arpinaama) 
Title: Raid (1947 film)
Content:  Raid (Razzia) is a 1947 German crime film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Paul Bildt, Agathe Poschmann, and Claus Holm. It was made as a cautionary tale about the black market in postwar Berlin. It was made in the Soviet Zone, which would later become East Germany. It was produced by the state-controlled DEFA and shot at the Johannisthal Studios and on location around Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Hunte and Bruno Monden. The picture sold more than 8,090,000 tickets.
Title: The Raid (2011 film)
Content:  While developing The Raid in script form, Evans started to toy around with the idea of creating a link between it and his initial project, Berandal. It was later confirmed that Berandal would serve as a sequel to The Raid. Evans has also stated his intention to make a trilogy. Sony pre-bought the US, Latin American and Spanish rights to the sequel. Alliance/Momentum bought the rights to the United Kingdom and Canada; Koch Media acquired the film for German-speaking territories; Korea Screen acquired the rights to Korea; and HGC acquired the rights to China. Deals for other major territories were also in negotiations. Subtitled Berandal for the Indonesian market and simply The Raid 2 for the US and English-speaking market, the sequel had a "significantly larger" budget than its predecessor, and its filming included approximately 100 days of 

Question: Who was the screenwriter for The Raid?
Answer: Gareth Evans.
Senator Gareth Evans.
Gareth John Evans.