THE brains behind Gangs Of London is set to shock this Christmas with a festive-fuelled action thriller.
Co-creator Gareth Evans is working on the new project – set to be filled with dark humour, with similarities to films like Die Hard, Iron Man 3 and The Nice Guys.
The GOL talent told Den of Geek: "I’ve been developing a film while we’ve been in post-production.
"All of my energy and all of my thinking has been on the film at the moment.
"Hopefully when all of this craziness lifts and the industry kick-starts back into life, I can jump into that film then and then get that one off the ground.
"I started writing it probably about five months ago now. Really since being in lockdown, obviously I’ve been able to give a lot more focus to the writing of it.
"It’s an action thriller. It’s a little more mainstream than what I’ve done in the past.
"It’s set two days before Christmas, so there’s a black dark humour streak to it, as well. It should be quite fun."
He continued: “I certainly got influenced by Shane Black because I just love Shane Black’s work anyway.
"His writing’s incredible and his work with characters and that humour is something that I’ve been striving to achieve in this film."
Speaking about Die Hard, he said: "There will be parallels, I guess. It’s not going to be set in one building. There’s nothing like that.”
Gangs Of London has been branded the most violent British drama ever.
Viewers were left reeling from an opening scene, in which gangster Sean Wallace, played by Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole, dangles a man from a skyscraper before burning him alive.
It may be the most violent TV show in British history, but it could have been a lot worse.
One of the series' directors revealed a revolting scene involving Wallace family matriarch, Marian (Michelle Fairley), torturing an enemy by gouging out her teeth with a spoon.
Gangs of London follows the aftermath of the execution of London crime boss Finn Wallace and the scramble for power that follows his murder.
Director Xavier Gens knew that when he took on the job working with Gangs of London creator and show runner Gareth Evans and fellow director Corin Hardy that he would be having to film some pretty graphic scenes.
He told Metro: "When I received the script for episode six I thanked Gareth to give me that project.
"I didn’t know last year what was the level of violence I can go through and when I saw Corin [Hardy] and Gareth were involved I knew we could go full on.
"I think the psychological violence in the episode is stronger than the graphic violence."
He added: "You have a sudden moment of violence but it’s very short. The first edit was more gory but when it’s too gory it kills the feeling of it.
"To make the violence eating you and touching you and then your brain does the process of feeling it, I was really working on this and Michelle was really kind.
"She was really pushing for it, for example, the spoon thing. We shot much more of that originally."
The violence that made it to air left viewers "screaming like babies".
The show has become notorious for its graphic violence and gore – and doesn't look set to stop there.
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