Tom Hardy and the Welsh director Gareth Evans presented Havoc, a crime thriller shot in Wales as an American city, at its world premiere at the BFI IMAX.
Gareth Evans’s crime thriller Havoc held its world premiere at the BFI IMAX on the South Bank on Tuesday 15 April 2025. Tom Hardy, its star and one of its producers, led the carpet with Evans.
Hardy was born in Hammersmith and trained at the Drama Centre London. He broke through in Bronson in 2008 and later starred in Locke. In Havoc he plays Walker, a compromised detective who searches for a politician’s estranged son after a drug deal ends in bloodshed.
Evans was born in Hirwaun, in the Cynon Valley, in 1980, and made his name in Indonesia with The Raid and The Raid 2. He returned to Britain for the horror film Apostle and created the series Gangs of London. He wrote Havoc as well as directing it, his first feature since Apostle in 2018.
The film was shot in Wales in 2021, with streets and sets built to stand in for an American city. It began streaming on Netflix ten days after the premiere.
Forest Whitaker, Timothy Olyphant and Jessie Mei Li appear alongside Hardy. Luis Guzmán and Justin Cornwell were among the cast who joined him at the premiere.