“Gangs of London” is quite a freighted title to give to a piece of media.
Author: Andrew Milne
Something that sets Gangs of London apart as a TV production is the pedigree of the directors brought in to work on it.
After Apostle – an offbeat, ambitious stab at a folk horror movie from a writer-director working in his own country and language for the first time in over a decade – released on Netflix in 2018 to solid-but-not-stellar reception, it wasn’t at all clear what Gareth Evans would do next.
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Apostle (2018)
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Pre Vis Action (2016)
I have to imagine that the end of The Raid 2’s release cycle was an existentially scary moment for Gareth Evans.
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The Raid 2 (2014)
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Safe Haven (from V/H/S/2) (2013)
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The Raid (2011)
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Merantau (2009)
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Footsteps (2006)
So: at some point next year, Gareth Evans’ sixth feature as director, Havoc, is due to drop on Netflix, and it is, by some margin, my most anticipated film of 2024.