International TV Series Competition

Gangs of London

Swiss Premiere

Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery / United Kingdom / 2020 / 94 min / Thriller
English / Subtitles French

Finn Wallace has been murdered. It’s bad news for everyone, since the criminal mastermind reigned over the London underworld. Plus, his son intends to take revenge. Gareth Evans, the award-winning director of The Raid, signs a bitter, dry and mesmerizingly virtuoso series.

Vincent Malausa, in Les Cahiers du cinéma, rightly wrote about The Raid, a virtuoso action movie by Gareth Evans, that “restored taste and faith in a genre entirely governed by ambitions of pleasure and efficiency”. Words that ring true for Gangs of London, which marks the filmmaker’s transition to TV series. Dark and violent, this evocation of the London underworld contains the craziest action scenes ever shot for television.

Creation

Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery

Direction

Gareth Evans

Screenplay

Gareth Evans, Matt Flannery, Claire Wilson

Image

Matt Flannery, Martijn van Broekhuizen, Laurent Bares

Editing

Sara Jones, Jonny Raynor, Adam Trotman

Sound

Paul McFadden, Paul Schwartz, Jon Thomas

Music

Aria Prayogi, Faja Yuskemal

Production

Pulse Films (Thomas Benski)

Co-production

Sister for Sky Studios

With

Sope Dirisu, Colm Meaney, Michelle Fairley, Joe Cole, Brian Vernel, Valene Kane

International sales

NBC (Leona Connell)

Broadcaster

Starzplay

Gareth Evans /

Filmography

2018, Apostle

2014, The Raid 2

2011 The Raid

2009, Merantau

2006, Footsteps

Matt Flannery /