In the film version, the title is derived from the designation of the status of agent Frank Moses, meaning "Retired, Extremely Dangerous". A sequel, RED 2, was released on July 19, 2013.

For the record, the all-caps letters in the title of the action-comedy sequel "RED 2" stand for "Retired, Extremely Dangerous ... are some fresh faces in the cast this time, and there are ...

In “Red 2,” the “retired and extremely dangerous” crowd returns — targeted ... and Anthony Hopkins as a mad scientist. The cast make it somewhat watchable, but no one will care about ...

It's an abbreviation for the CIA's way of listing in its files some of its former employees: Retired, Extremely Dangerous ... of this rollicking all-star cast, if you must know, is Mary-Louise ...

Frank and Sarah travel the country rounding up a team of crack spies whose top-secret files reside under the heading “R.E.D.”—Retired, Extremely Dangerous. There’s Joe (Morgan Freeman), a ...

Extremely Dangerous - pits a team of retired CIA agents against the same government that once employed them to kill. The veterans - played by an award-winning A-list cast which boasts Bruce Willis ...

See About archive blog posts. ‘RED,’ incidentally, is short for ‘retired, extremely dangerous,’ and the film is an action comedy about former CIA black-ops types based on a darker graphic ...

2010’s Red (Retired & Extremely Dangerous) was a sleeper hit, but the 2013 sequel fell asleep at […] By Jay Jayson September 6, 2017, 11:20am ...

So this is unexpected, but RED, which stands for Retired Extremely Dangerous, looks pretty fun! Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Wills, and Mary Louise Parker are retired CIA ...