FIRST LOOK AT TOM’S NEW MOVIE
LONG-AWAITED Netflix crime drama Havoc, which features Tom Hardy in a lead role, has finally unveiled a first look. The new film, which is written and directed by filmmaker Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), was largely shot in Wales.
The first photos for Havoc have been released on the havocfilm Instagram account. They don’t reveal much but do show a bloodied Tom Hardy holding a cup of coffee while wearing a checked shirt and police vest.
A second photo of Tom shows him lying in a bed in costume. The photos have been captioned: “Some jums Before the blast.”
A synopsis for the new film, which also stars Forest Whitaker and Timothy Olyphant, has teased: “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.”
Various Welsh locations have been used for Havoc. In September 2021 Cardiff Bay was covered in snow with the area doubling for America.
Caerphilly brothers Tom and Dan Berrow, who run Benchmark Scenic Construction Ltd, were responsible for bringing snow to filming.
While they couldn’t reveal much at the time, the pair stressed how excited they were that Wales was being used as a location.
“With some of the bigger studios expanding in Cardiff, these big projects seem to be coming down now, culminating with Tom Hardy and Forest Whittaker in Havoc. They’re really big names and it’s nice to be involved in something that’s so popular and publicly acknowledged in Wales as well,” Tom said.
Speaking about Havoc in 2021, writer and director Edwards told Forbes: “That’s a movie that is definitely a standalone project. There are no current plans for that to become a franchise. I think on a project by project basis, if I pitch something and I feel like it has legs, and it could part one of two or three or wherever, that’s certainly a conversation to be had.”