‘Gangs of London’ producer teases the future of show

Spoiler Alert: Details follow from season 3 of “Gangs of London”.

After saying goodbye to some of the most famous characters in season 3, the “Gangs of London” team is ready for more.

“The challenge is the same challenge that we have every season: to continue to deliver more surprises to the public, and we still have a shame of wealth in the cast, of course, with those who survived it,” laughs producer Hugh Warren.

“We have some great things in mind, because we do not want to disappoint people. I think it is really important to the public to understand that by killing these main characters, there is no predicting what happens next.”

This included Sean Wallace, played by Joe Cole and Ed Dumani (Lucian Msamati).

“It is always a shock. It was a shock when Sean died, it was a shock when Ed died – people really did not expect that. But I think they have learned the unexpected to expect for three seasons,” he says.

“The temptation is to hold on to those characters, because they are great, but it is also exciting to breathe new life into the show and ‘regenerate’. This way it is different every season and feels fresh. He says, mention of season 3 addition Zeek (played by Andrew Koji).

“We are always looking for ways to expand this world, and his background story naturally has a real bond with the Wallaces [he’s Finn Wallace’s illegitimate son]. We hope to explore that a little further. ‘

Until now, every season under the supervision of another director was supervised.

“More than any other show I have produced, it was conceived as a director. Pulsefilms had never made television, so their network was all film directors, such as Gareth [Evans]. Every season we have had a strong car voice: Gareth, Dan Corin Hardy and Hongsun Kim [in Season 3]. It was also very interesting for everyone to have the Perspective of Hongsun’s Outsider. He certainly wanted it to feel more commercial. ‘

And as for the director in season 4?

“We have not confirmed anyone, but we have some ideas. Conversations are going on.”

The person who eventually takes over the universe, violence will still be an “integral part” of the show.

“Gareth is famous for very absolute, extensive sequence of violence in the ‘Raid’ films, so that is part of the DNA of the show. We have to maintain that. Sometimes there is some humor in it, and it is all very increased. It is almost cartoon -like, and that enables us to go.

Warren adds: “In season 2, Corin Hardy witnessed a very violent fight in London, and he was completely shocked by it. He told him to show how far away were.”

At Monte-Carlo Television Festival, Warren was accompanied by actors ṣọpẹ ṣọrísù-playing ex-Under cover agent changed gangster, Elliot and Narges Rashidi.

Warren also opened another season 3 Cliffhanger, where the mayor of London (T’nia Miller) announced a drug legalization plan.

“We are not so much investigating it as a political argument as what the impact on the gang world will be. One of the largest industries in the world is an illegal operation that is handed over to gangsters – if you remove it and that turns into a legitimate world, as it did in the US. [after Prohibition ended]What happens to those people? “

“That prospect of legalization would be incredibly threatening for them. All this money that is currently enjoyed by very prosperous gangsters would be enjoyed by government. Of course the two worlds can still exist side by side, but it was an interesting thing to explore in terms of the psyche of our characters.”

The show continues to display London as a diverse and varied city.

“When I started and went to the first meetings, I heard: there are so many roles for you – so many terrorists. It literally made me cry, I had depression,” Narges Rashidi recalls during a Rondetary interview. Born in Iran, she grew up in Germany.

Dìrísù adds: “This [multiculturality] Was always a part of the show, even when it comes to the people behind the camera. Sometimes you walk through the street in London and within the 100 -meter period you hear 16 different languages. People can express themselves in languages ​​they speak at home. ”

Rashidi learned to approach the violence of the show, such as ‘Make-Balieve Games’. “You feel that you are a child again and you can play more, but it is not really. That certainly helps. It is fun because it is fictional. It would not be in real life.”

“There is this moment in one of your fighting Nobody will believe this. But in the heat of the moment, you fight with everything you have. Tooth and nail and organic issue, “laughs that.

In the future, Rashidi would like to see her character, Lale, “in an everyday situation.”

“What if she suddenly find a dog? You know, like a small puppy. And she has to deal with it. How is she going to go shopping? How would she choose her shopping? I would like to see her do,” she says, with dances, “Forget season 4 – let’s just have the Lale spider -off.

But finding a way to empathize with their poor, criminal -minded heroes is the key.

“We understand their motivations because similar things motivate us, although hopefully not to the same extent. People understand how violent Sean was willing to defend his family because they would like to do the same if their family were in similar situations,” he notes.

Eventually in “Gangs of London” – just like in real life – the family always comes first.

Warren adds: “When I first came to the show and talked about it with Gareth for the first time, I said this very clearly to him:” It’s not my genre. ” But I was absolutely caught by the Familyaga.