“Gangs of London” is quite a freighted title to give to a piece of media.

“Gangs of London” is quite a freighted title to give to a piece of media.
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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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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In the last twenty years, there has perhaps been no one filmmaker more influential on the course of action cinema than Gareth Evans.