Netflix’s Havoc: 6 Reasons I’m Excited For The Tom Hardy Crime Drama

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Gareth Evans, the Welsh filmmaker and action choreographer best known for creating The Raid movies (aka, two of the most badass action movies of the 21st Century), and Tom Hardy (who is also no stranger to the action genre) are getting together what sounds like a badass project, and excited isn’t strong enough of word to describe how I am feeling right now. Havoc on Netflix will see two of the best at what they do team up for the first time, to tell the story of a detective who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when a drug deal goes south.

 

There is a seemingly endless list of reasons why I’m so giddy about this movie right now, a movie that I know next to nothing about save for its basic premise. Everything from the cast, which includes Forest Whitaker in addition to Tom Hardy, Gareth Evans’ track record, and what this could mean for for director and Netflix’s relationship moving forward, have me stoked to see how this plays out for all involved parties.

 

Havoc Has A Simple,

Yet Effective Premise That Has Served Gareth Evans Well In The Past When reporting on the announcement of Havoc, and Gareth Evans’ overall deal with Netflix, Deadline described the film as a story that centers on a bruised detective who must fight his way through the criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son while also trying to get to the bottom of a conspiracy and survive a drug deal gone wrong.

 

On the surface, this sounds like a very cut-and-dry plot with elements we’ve seen before: physically (and presumably emotionally) beaten down detective must survive the night, save someone, and stop the bad guys from putting a mysterious plan into motion. But, don’t forget, this is coming from the same guy who took a story about cops swarming an apartment building to take down a drug lord and pretty much changed the way we see action movies with The Raid.

 

 

Gareth Evans Is One Of The Best When It Comes Planning Action, And Havoc Won’t Be The Exception

There is no doubting it, Gareth Evans is one of the best at what he does, in fight choreography as well as filmmaking. The Welsh director, in addition to writing and directing The Raid, The Raid 2, and Apostle, also either worked as a fight choreographer or action designer, planning out every single detail of all those fights and bits of torturous gore, as was the case of his 2018 Netflix horror thriller.

 

In 2017, Evans sat down with Vulture to go over some of those action sequences, including the brutal and heartbreaking fight between Jaka (Mortal Kombat’s Joe Taslim) and Mad Dog (Yayan Ruhian), which involved dozens of takes to get it perfect. And he did. That fight, and so many others like it, were built from the ground up by Evans (who fell in love with the silat martial arts style while filming a documentary) and his team of experts, creating the most visceral yet realistic fights in recent memory. Add the physicality of Tom Hardy and Havoc could be insane.

 

There Are Few Actors Better Suited For This Role Than Tom Hardy When it was revealed that Tom Hardy

had signed on to lead Havoc, I struggled to think of anyone who was better suited for that role than the Mad Max: Fury Road and The Dark Knight Rises star. Seriously, Hardy has everything you would want from an actor hired to take on the role of a bruised cop trying to survive what’s pretty much an unwinnable fight. He has the physicality needed for this type of role (as seen in the underrated MMA movie Warrior), the charisma (Inception), and that wild card factor (go watch Bronson and get back to me), and I’m not the only one who thinks this.

 

Shortly after the big February 2021 announcement, Gareth Evans took to Instagram (you should follow him if you’re looking for all things soccer, classic movies, and random thoughts) to post a screenshot of the aforementioned Deadline article with the caption: “Hardy. Heroic. Bloodshed. Havoc.” Upon seeing that, I was somehow even more excited to see Tom Hardy knock a few dudes around like he’s Bane taking over Gotham City all over again.

 

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[D J C]