{"id":186985,"date":"2025-06-15T18:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186985\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T18:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:21:17","slug":"gangs-of-london-producer-teases-shows-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186985\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Gangs of London’ Producer Teases Show’s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: Details follow from Season 3 of \u201cGangs of London<\/a>.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tAfter saying goodbye to some of its most-known characters in Season 3, the \u201cGangs of London\u201d team is ready for more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe challenge is the same challenge we have every season: to keep delivering more surprises for the audience, and we still have an embarrassment of riches in the cast, obviously, with those that survived,\u201d laughs producer Hugh Warren.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have some great things in mind, because we don\u2019t want to disappoint people. I think it\u2019s really important for the audience to understand that, by killing these lead characters, there\u2019s no predicting what happens next.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat included Sean Wallace, played by Joe Cole, and Ed Dumani (Lucian Msamati).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s always a shock. It was a shock when Sean died, it was a shock when Ed died \u2013 people really didn\u2019t expect that. But I think they\u2019ve learned through three seasons to just expect the unexpected,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe temptation is to hang on to those characters, because they\u2019re great, but it\u2019s also exciting to keep reinvigorating the show and \u2018regenerating\u2019 it. This way, each season is different and feels fresh. There\u2019s a clue in the title: \u2018Gangs of London\u2019 is plural. The original concept was always that it could be a rolling theme and that the gangs would be different. We are thinking through all those issues around the next season. There\u2019ll be some new characters and some new surprises,\u201d he says, mentioning Season 3 addition Zeek (played by Andrew Koji).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re always looking for ways to expand this world, and his backstory, obviously, has a real connection with the Wallaces [he\u2019s Finn Wallace\u2019s illegitimate son]. We hope to explore that a bit further.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSo far, each season was overseen by a different director.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMore than any other show I\u2019ve produced, it\u2019s conceived as a directors\u2019 show. Pulse Films had never made television before, so their network was all film directors, like Gareth [Evans]. Each season we\u2019ve had a strong authorial voice: Gareth, then Corin Hardy and Hongsun Kim [in Season 3]. It was also really interesting for all to have Hongsun\u2019s outsider\u2019s perspective. He certainly wanted it to feel more commercial visually.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd as for the director in Season 4?<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe haven\u2019t confirmed anyone, but we have some ideas. There are conversations going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhoever ends up taking over the universe, violence will still be an \u201cintegral part\u201d of the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGareth\u2019s famous for very balletic, extended violence sequences in the \u2018Raid\u2019 movies, so that\u2019s a part of the DNA of the show. We need to maintain that. Sometimes there\u2019s some humor in there, and it\u2019s all very heightened. It\u2019s almost cartoony, and that enables us to go a bit further. We\u2019re on an endless quest for new means of death, and new weapons, and whatever props are going to be used violently.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWarren adds: \u201cOn Season 2, Corin Hardy witnessed a very violent fight in London, and he was completely shocked by it. He said it showed him how far removed we\u2019re from it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt Monte-Carlo Television Festival<\/a>, Warren was joined by actors \u1e62\u1ecdp\u1eb9\u0301 D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9<\/a> \u2013 playing ex-undercover cop turned gangster, Elliot, and Narges Rashidi.<\/p>\n

\n\tWarren also opened up about another Season 3 cliffhanger, with the mayor of London (T\u2019Nia Miller) announcing a drug legalization plan.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re not exploring it as a political argument so much as what the impact on the gang world will be. One of the biggest industries in the world is an illegal operation that\u2019s handed to gangsters \u2013 if you remove that and turn that into a legitimate world, like that did in the U.S. [after Prohibition ended], what happens to those people?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat prospect of legalization would be incredibly threatening to them. All this money that at the moment is enjoyed by very affluent gangsters, would be enjoyed by governments through taxation. Of course, the two worlds can still co-exist, but it was an interesting thing to explore in terms of the psyche of our characters.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show keeps on portraying London as a diverse and varied city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I started out and went to the first meetings, I heard: There are so many roles for you \u2013 so many terrorists. It literally made me cry, I had depression,\u201d recalls Narges Rashidi during a roundtable interview. Born in Iran, she grew up in Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tD\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9 adds: \u201cThis [multiculturality] was always a part of the show, also when it comes to the people behind the camera. Sometimes you\u2019re walking down the street in London and within the 100 meter span you\u2019ll hear 16 different languages. People are allowed to express themselves in languages they speak at home.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRashidi learnt to approach the show\u2019s violence like \u201cplaying make-believe.\u201d \u201cYou feel like you\u2019re a child again and you get to play more, but it\u2019s not real. That helps for sure. It\u2019s fun, because it\u2019s fictional. It wouldn\u2019t be in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s this moment in one of your fight sequences where, well, some organic material was used as a garrote. Let\u2019s be real. There was a group of people in the corner, going: \u2018It can\u2019t work. No one\u2019s going to believe this. But in the heat of the moment, you fight with everything you\u2019ve got. Tooth and nail, and organic matter,\u201d laughs D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the future, Rashidi would like to see her character, Lale, \u201cin a mundane situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat if she found a dog all of a sudden? You know, like a little puppy. And she has to deal with it. How does she go shopping? How would she choose her groceries? I would love to see her do that,\u201d she says, with D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9 joking: \u201cForget about Season 4 \u2013 let\u2019s just have the Lale spinoff. These are the stuff we really want to see: Lale with a dog, Lale goes shopping. Every episode is 15 minutes long.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut finding a way to empathize with their flawed, criminally minded heroes is key.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe understand their motivations because similar things motivate us, although hopefully not to the same degree. People understand how violently Sean was willing to defend his family because they would want to do the same should their family be in similar situations,\u201d he notes.<\/p>\n

\n\tUltimately, in \u201cGangs of London\u201d \u2013 just like in real life \u2013 family always comes first.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWarren adds: \u201cWhen I first came to the show and first talked to Gareth about it, I said this to him very clearly: \u2018It\u2019s not my genre.\u2019 But I was absolutely gripped by the family saga. It\u2019s Shakespearean. I always felt that was the way into a very violent story. Their behavior is massively extreme, but everybody comes from a dysfunctional family.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: Details follow from Season 3 of \u201cGangs of London.\u201d After saying goodbye to some of its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,76596,4884,257,76597,76598,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-186985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-gangs-of-london","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-monte-carlo-television-festival","14":"tag-u1e62u1ecdpu1eb9u0301-du00ecru00edsu00f9","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114688772370513310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}