Dark city
Writer-director-co-showrunner Corin Hardy on the shocks and surprises of GANGS OF LONDON: SEASON 2
THE FIRST, GARETH Evans-led, season of Gangs Of London earned the Sky/AMC show a deserved reputation as the bloodiest and most shocking slice of TV this side of Westeros. And even with a change of showrunner, with Corin Hardy now in the big chair, that reputation was enhanced after a second season of twists, turns, sudden deaths, unexpected resurrections, and death by karaoke. Here, Hardy talks us through the whole bloody affair.
DOWN WITH DUMANI
Hardy admits that his initial plans for Season 2 were built in part around Alex Dumani, the tortured, high-flying son of gangster Ed Dumani. Then Paapa Essiedu had late availability issues, leading to the big shocker of the first episode, as a beleaguered Alex throws himself off the side of a building. “We had to adjust the whole storyline around the fact that he wouldn’t be in the whole show,” laughs Hardy. “So it was a sad, but exciting, revelation. We actually don’t want to kill off these people, because as characters you get really close to them. So we had to go back and forth on it.”