We have now reached year four of waiting for Tom Hardy
to join forces with the director behind The Raid, Gareth Evans, for the Netflix
action movie Havoc
. But this latest update certainly suggests that it will have been worth the wait. While we have known the plot and the cast for some time, action fans have had to wait patiently for any other information or updates, with this new insight potentially revealing the long-awaited thriller’s epic runtime.
According to World of Reel, various outlets, including IMDb Pro, now have Havoc listed with a runtime of 2 hours 30 minutes, matching Evans’ 2014 martial arts epic The Raid 2. If this is accurate, it should give Hardy and Evans plenty of time to deliver what promises to be a modern classic of the genre as the Oscar-nominee and Venom star takes to the streets as a “bruised detective” who finds himself entering the criminal underworld in his search for a politician’s son. You can check out the synopsis for Havoc below.
After a drug deal gone wrong, a detective fights his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s son — unraveling a web of corruption and conspiracy ensnaring his entire city.
‘Havoc’ Will Deliver on the Action, Gareth Evans Promises
While we still don’t have a release date for Havoc, things are progressing at last, with director Gareth Evans taking to Instagram recently to tease the movie and declare that Havoc is “Coming soon(ish).” Hardy will be joined on this explosive adventure by an all-star cast that includes Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker and the star of Justified and The Mandalorian, Timothy Olyphant. Making up the rest of the supporting cast are Xelia Mendes-Jones, Justin Cornwell, Jessie Mei Li, Yeo Yann Yann, Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán, Sunny Pang, and Michelle Waterson.
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Any news of delays usually has movie fans worried, but Evans has reassured audiences, telling Empire recently that all of this time in production has “had a profound effect on the film. It allowed me to better streamline it, and make it what it was always intended to be, which is a blistering, fast-paced action-thriller with nods to the Hong Kong cinema that I grew up watching.” The filmmaker also promised that Havoc will do what’s most important: deliver on the action front.
“When it comes to a film called HAVOC, with me and Tom Hardy, we deliver on the action front. That’s the primary focus. But with Tom, what you get as well is an intensely muscular central performance, and really well-developed character. There’s a lot going on under the hood.
He’s basically on clean-up duty, and he has to navigate this broken city in order to get to him first. That’s the propulsive mission he goes on, and because it’s me, it doesn’t go well for a long time.”
This story originally appeared on Movieweb
