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Gareth Evans’ first TV series, Gangs of London, currently filming

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- The highly anticipated TV series is part of a €220 million production deal signed by Sky and HBO, and is set to air next year

Gareth Evans’ first TV series, Gangs of London, currently filming
Director Gareth Evans

After the success of his latest work, Apostle, a period horror film released on Netflix two months ago, Welsh director Gareth Evans is now working on his new project, a ten-episode TV series entitled Gangs of London. Evans will direct five of the episodes and is the creator of the series along with cinematographer Matt Flannery, here making his debut as a show writer. The other confirmed series directors are French filmmaker Xavier Gens (Cold Skin [+see also:
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), who will direct three episodes, and English helmer Corin Hardy, who will direct two, and who made his directorial debut with 2015’s The Hallow and recently made the gothic horror flick The Nun, which has grossed over €320 million this year. 

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Gangs of London is a thriller series revolving around the power struggle that ensues when a criminal kingpin is assassinated, creating a power vacuum that causes international gangs to battle for control of the modern-day London underworld. Recently, Kingston upon Thames-born actor Joe Cole (A Prayer Before Dawn [+see also:
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) and young thesp Sope Dirisu (Sand Castle) have joined the stellar international cast, which also includes Mark Lewis Jones (Apostle), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Patient Zero), Brian Vernel (Papillon [+see also:
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), Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones’ Catelyn Stark), Lucian Msamati (Black Earth Rising’s David Runihura), Orli Shuka (Joe All Alone’s Kosmy), Richard Harrington (Gwen [+see also:
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), Jude Akuwidike (Fortitude’s Doctor Adebimpe), Emmett J Scanlan (In the Cloud) and Jing Lusi (Crazy Rich Asians).

Hugh Warren (In the Dark) is producing the series in association with Thomas Benski (Payday) and Lucas Ochoa (One More Time) for British outfit Pulse FilmsJane Featherstone (Utopia) for independent production company Sister Pictures and Gabriel Silver (Clique) for Sky Original ProductionsGangs of London is set to air on Sky in the UK and Cinemax in the USA next year. Filming is now under way in London.

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