Tom Hardy to star in Gareth Evans ‘Havoc’ for Netflix – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Gareth Evans found his new home for the next few years as manager of Lowering franchise has signed an exclusive agreement with Netflix to produce and direct films for the studio. As part of the new partnership, Evans directed the action thriller Ravaged as the first film under the deal with Tom Hardy on board to play.

Evans will write and direct photo and production for One More One Productions, as will Hardy, Ed Talfan for Severn Screen and Aram Tertzakian for XYZ Films. The story is set after a drug case gone awry, when a bruised detective must fight his way through a criminal world to save a politician’s son, while unraveling a deep web of corruption and corruption. plot that surrounds his entire city.

Netflix and Evans have been working on the new deal for some time, but wanted to make sure Hardy was locked up as they saw it as the first project to come to light under the deal. Evans and Netflix have previously worked on the horror thriller Apostle, starring Dan Stevens, and after production, the streamer saw the Evans style movie fit Netflix perfectly and began to make a deal to get it back into business for the foreseeable future.

Evans’ first films Wander, and Raid 1 & 2 introduced the Indonesian martial art of pencak silat to world cinema. After returning from Indonesia to the UK, Apostle, a British folk horror starring Stevens, Michael Sheen and Lucy Boynton was filmed entirely in Wales and released on Netflix in 2018.

He recently co-created with his longtime collaborator Matt Flannery the television series London gangs for Sky Atlantic and AMC, on which Ed Talfan produced the critically acclaimed Episode 5. The show debuted in the UK in April 2020, followed by the US in October.

As for Hardy, the Oscar nominated actor most recently played gangster Al Capone in Capone. He can then be seen reprising the role of Eddie Brock in Venom: Let there be carnage.

Hardy and Evans are both taken over by Range Media Partners. Hardy is also replaced by United Agents and Sloane Offer. Evans is also replaced by WME, Management 360 and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.