Although initially planned for a late 2024 release, it looks like Gareth Evans’ “Havoc,” starring Tom Hardy, will be delayed to 2025. It's scheduled for some reshoots this month in Wales.
There’s been a lot of speculation about the reasons for its delay, with reshoots having occurred in early 2023, and now, again, next month. Producer Ed Talfan’s profile on Severn Screen still states the movie is coming out in 2024, but that detail might disappear soon.
“Havoc” wrapped production in October 2021. It stars Tom Hardy, Forest Whitaker, Luis Guzman, and Timothy Olyphant, but the main reason for our anticipation is Evans. He’s the filmmaker behind the two ‘Raid’ films, 2018’s “Apostle” and the 2020 series “Gangs of London.” A filmmaker, known for a visceral and blood-soaked style, that’s well worth following.
There’s also been barely any details about the plot of “Havoc,” just a synopsis that was released before production began in July 2021.
After a drug deal goes awry, a detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician's estranged son, while untangling his city's dark web of conspiracy and corruption.
In November 2022, Evans took to Instagram to clear up any speculation, saying that he was “still plugging away at it, doing all we can to make the film the best it can be,” but that in order to produce the film to their standards, it would have to involve “a small amount of additional photography that we are hoping to shoot soon”.
Some suspected that Evans, known for taking his meticulous time in the editing room, was doing just that: editing. There’s also the aforementioned reshoots, but we’re not entirely sure how extensive they were.