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‘Havoc’ Director Gareth Evans on Action Filmmaking After ‘The Raid’ and Playing Four Gessafelstein Songs in a Row for a Fight Scene
Gareth Evans, director of Netflix's 'Havoc' and the 'Raid' series, talks the process of merging gritty storytelling with frenetic fight choreography.
They helped put the Indonesian martial art of Pencak Silat on the world map, and established Evans as an endlessly inventive filmmaker both in terms of fight choreography and cinematography. In addition to detailing the themes and characterizations that provided connective tissue between his gritty storytelling and breathtaking, elaborate action, Evans reflected on the arc of his post-“Raid” career and offered his thoughts on the martial arts films and filmmakers who inspire him right now. But also, because of the fact that he’s worked in so many different action films in the past, and especially something like “Mad Max Fury Road,” with that process where we are shooting bite sized chunks of something as opposed to you’re going to do this whole flow in one, it meant that he already had a hell of a lot of experience.
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