UPDATE: Evans has confirmed the runtime is 105 minutes, and that it’s being released this spring on Netflix — no specific date given.
EARLIER: Letterboxd and IMDb Pro have Gareth Evans’ “Havoc” clocking in at 2 hours 30 minutes. As usual, when contacted for confirmation, Netflix refused to comment about the runtime. If accurate, 150 minutes would be the exact same runtime as Evans’ “The Raid 2.”
A week ago, Evans did have a story up about color grading having been completed on the film, and in the process, so was post-production. After more than four years, the film is officially in the can. That’s great news since, despite the delays, there’s still tons of anticipation for this film which sees Evans going back to his frenetic action roots.
In November 2022, Evans took to Instagram to confirm that he was “still plugging away at it, doing all we can to make the film the best it can be,” but that in order to produce the film to their standards, it would have to involve “a small amount of additional photography that we are hoping to shoot soon”.
Reshoots on “Havoc” finally occurred last summer and were completed in July 2024. Evans then went on social media at the time to confirm that the film was now set for “5-6 months” of post-production work. A release during the first quarter of 2025 might be happening, but again, Netflix is keeping a very tight lid on this one.
More recently, Evans told Empire that we shouldn’t worry about the delays, the film was worth the wait, and that it especially came together during the reshoots.
It’s 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.
“Havoc,” which had originally wrapped production in October 2021, stars Tom Hardy, Forest Whitaker, Luis Guzman, and Timothy Olyphant. Here’s the synopsis:
After a drug deal goes awry, a detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician's estranged son, while untangling his city's dark web of conspiracy and corruption.
Evans is the filmmaker behind both ‘Raid’ films, 2018’s “Apostle” and the 2020 series “Gangs of London.” He’s well-known for his visceral and blood-soaked style of filmmaking.
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