Director Gareth Evans has provided an update for his long-delayed thriller, Havoc, saying that ‘additional photography’ is now underway.
Official word on The Raid director Gareth Evans’ latest film, Havoc, has been rather difficult to come by since shooting ended in 2021. Starring Tom Hardy, the film has been subject to various delays, and there had been previous rumours that it had been subject to reshoots either last year or the year before.
Gareth Evans has now taken to Instagram to dispel those rumours of earlier reshoots. As spotted by World of Reel, in an 8th July post, Evans wrote that production on additional photography had only just begun – two and a half years after it originally wrapped.
“And we’re back!” Evans’ post reads. “Contrary to rumours over the last 2 and a half years – today actually marks the first day of additional photography to finally complete HAVOC. It’s been a long old road filled with scheduling issues, strikes and more scheduling issues while we’ve worked to get the band back together. But here we are and away we go.”
Evans also takes the time to thank Netflix for its “unwavering commitment and support” as well as “crew and cast, old and new.”
Because it’s Insta, there’s also a photo: that of a car on a soundstage bathed in green; background details like roads and so forth will no doubt be keyed in later.
Also starring Forest Whitaker, Timothy Olyphant and Justin Cornwell, Havoc is a noir-ish sounding thriller about a detective fighting through a city’s criminal underworld. It’s unclear whether the fighting will be metaphorical or physical and exceedingly bloody, as it was in Evans’ terrific Raid films. We’re quietly hoping it’s the latter.
Havoc was conspicuously absent from 2024’s slate of offerings announced earlier in the year. Despite previous rumours, it’s now said that the movie will emerge in January 2025 – something Cornwell let slip on an episode of the Double Toasted podcast back in May.
Here’s hoping those reshoots will match the footage already captured in 2021, and the resulting film is worth the wait.
More on this as it comes in.
