THE RAID Director Gareth Evans is Developing a Gangland Drama For HBO's Cinemax Called GANGS OF LONDON

The director of The Raid films, Gareth Evans, is set to develop a big-budget TV gangland drama for HBO's Cinemax. It's called Gangs of London and it sounds like it could be pretty freakin' awesome. 

According to Deadline, the series is an original concept from Evans and it's set in contemporary London "as it is becoming torn apart by power struggles involving a number of international gangs." The report goes on to say that the series begins "as the head of one criminal gang is assassinated and the power vacuum threatens the fragile peace between the other underworld organisations."

Evans says that he hopes the show will bring a “cinematic viewing experience” into U.S and UK homes. He adds:

“It has been a thrilling experience to leap into longform storytelling, exploring a multicultural world of global crime as it intersects on the streets of London.”

Producer Anne Mensah talked a bit about Gangs of London saying that it's an “unrivalled spectacle with characters to match”, while Kary Antholis, President of Miniseries at HBO and President of Programming at Cinemax said it was a “fun, adrenalized and entertaining series that will be catnip for audiences”.

I love what Evans has done with the two Raid films that he's made and I'm excited to see what he is planning for this. There's no doubt that it's going to be a hardcore gangster series. Evans is set to direct the series and it will debut in 2019.