- Tom Hardy and Mahershala Ali are headlining the forthcoming 77 Blackout as Eddie Boyle and Ray Butler, respectively.
- Inspired by true events, Bond 25 director Cary Joji Fukunaga (No Time To Die) is also currently attached.
- 77 Blackout release date: TBA.
While Netflix holds Havoc hostage — an action flick helmed by The Raid franchise director and Gangs of London co-creator Gareth Evans — Tom Hardy has signed on for a similar-sounding project alongside two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali (the latter of whom has also been waiting on Marvel to rolls cameras for Blade).
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The film is titled 77 Blackout and ostensibly draws inspiration from the real-life power outage that plunged New York City into chaos almost half a century ago. According to Deadline, the synopsis is as follows:
“In 1977, five rogue police officers formulate a plan to rob three criminal strongholds — the Hong Kong Triads, the Italian Mafia, and the Harlem Mob — all in one night. When a blackout sweeps the city the night of the robbery, the crew is forced to navigate a hellish landscape as years of being overworked and underpaid forces each of them to confront their own morality.”
Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective season 1, No Time To Die, Masters of the Air) is currently attached to direct with a screenplay penned by Frank John Hughes (FX’s Justified). Charles Roven of Oppenheimer fame along with Madison Weireter for Atlas Entertainment, and William Green and Aaron Ginsburg for The Cut will produce.
If this one ever manages to hit theatres, we’ll be the first in line to see it.
Between this, Guy Ritchie’s other crime series — one that’s also enlisted Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren — and the long-rumoured second season of Taboo, Tom Hardy certainly has a full plate in front of him. So, it’s probably a good thing his long-dragging Splinter Cell movie has just been scrapped.
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The aforementioned Havoc, on the other hand, has tentatively been teased for early 2025 — featuring a cast that includes Xelia Mendes-Jones, Forest Whitaker, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Cornwell, Jessie Mei Li, Yeo Yann Yann, Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán, Sunny Pang, Richard Pepper, Tony Parker, as well as UFC strawweight Michelle Waterson.
Keep an eye out for it on Netflix, and check out the plot outline below:
“After a drug deal goes awry, Detective Walker (Hardy) 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.”
