Tom Hardy isn’t messing around in Havoc.
Speaking with Empire, which debuted the new image above, director Gareth Evans (The Raid 2) teased what audiences can expect from his new action movie. “It was never going to be a martial arts film,” he revealed. “I wanted this to feel like the gunplay stuff that I love watching.”
In Havoc, Hardy plays Walker, a bruised detective who, after a drug deal gone wrong, must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, while unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.
“Tom came to us in fucking beast mode,” said Evans. “I tapped him on the shoulder and it was just like granite. He came fully physically prepared.” The filmmaker continued, “Walker is not silky-smooth. He’s gonna cause as much carnage and as much mayhem as possible. He’s not grabbing your wrist and turning you into an arm lock. He’s grabbing you by the scruff of the neck and driving your face into the nearest heavy object.”
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“There’s a sequence in a fishing shack where it’s like an onslaught, a relentless attack,” Evans teased. “Every corner of this place someone’s going to pop up with a gun, someone’s going to pop up with a knife, and they’re going to come from under the floorboards, around the corners, through this window, through that window.”
Besides Hardy, Havoc stars Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell, Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán, Michelle Waterson, Sunny Pang, Jim Caesar, Xelia Mendes-Jones, Yeo Yann Yann, Timothy Olyphant, and Forest Whitaker. The teaser trailer for the movie was released in February 2025. Havoc begins streaming on Netflix on April 25, 2025.
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