Gareth Evans’ ‘Havoc’ Creates 2025 Release — World of Reel

Earlier this year, when Netflix announced its 2024 film, Gareth Evans’ “Havoc,” shot in 2021, was again notably absent. Many wondered what exactly is happening with this movie?

There has been much speculation about the reasons for the delays. Whatever the case, reshoots wrapped last July and Evans even continued social media at the time to confirm that the film was now set for “5-6 months” of post-production work. A release in the first quarter of 2025 was being eyed.

We now have our first look at “Havoc” (via Empire). Evans tells Empire not to worry about the delays, the film was worth the wait and that it especially came together during reshoots.

“It had a profound effect on the film,” he tells the magazine of the extra footage. “It allowed me to better streamline it and make it what it was always intended to be, which is a fast-paced action thriller with a nod to the Hong Kong cinema I grew up watching.”

“Havoc”, which wrapped the production October 2021starring Tom Hardy, Forest Whitaker, Luis Guzman and Timothy Olyphant. Evans is the filmmaker behind both ‘Raid’ films, 2018’s “Apostle” and the 2020 series “Gangs of London”. He is known for his visceral and gory filmmaking style.

Here is the synopsis:

After a drug deal goes wrong, a detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son while unraveling the city’s dark web of conspiracy and corruption.

In November 2022, Evans gained weight Instagram to confirm that he “still pulled it off and did everything we can to make the film as good as it can be”, but that to produce the film to their standards, it would involve “a small amount of additional photography, which we hope to take soon”.