In the last twenty years, there has perhaps been no one filmmaker more influential on the course of action cinema than Gareth Evans.
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Gareth Evans Retrospective
Series: Gareth Evans Retrospective
A retrospective by Andrew Milne on the works of Gareth Evans.
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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.
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Merantau (2009)
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Safe Haven (from V/H/S/2) (2013)
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The Raid 2 (2014)
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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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Apostle (2018)
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Gangs of London (2020)
In the spring of 2020, in the early days of the COVID pandemic and following the wet thud that was the ending of Game of Thrones, audiences were craving something to fill that niche in the landscape of Peak TV.
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.
Something that sets Gangs of London apart as a TV production is the pedigree of the directors brought in to work on it.