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Gareth Evans

Wales

Gareth Huw Evans (born April 6, 1980) is a Welsh film director, screenwriter, editor, and action choreographer. He is best known for the Indonesian action crime films Merantau (2009), The Raid (2011), and The Raid 2 (2014), and for bringing the Indonesian martial art of pencak silat into world cinema through these films.  He is also known for co-creating, co-writing, co-directing, and executive producing the Sky Atlantic/AMC action crime drama television series Gangs of London(2020–present) alon

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That Oldboy corridor fight... that's been a massive influence on me because it's not stylish, it's brutal, it's ugly, it's messy, and it's just one guy beating everyone down.

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