LAHORE – Tanhaiyaan actor Asif Raza Mir has been reportedly signed forHBO’s upcoming series Gangs of London.
Mir is best known for his roles in television drama serials Darwaza,Samundar, Tansen, Choti Choti Baatein, Roshni and Ishq Gumshuda amongothers.
Directed by Gareth Evans the visionary behind The Raid, Evans latestproject will be set in present-day London which has been ripped apart bythe destructive power struggles of international criminal organisations.
According to Den of Geek Evans has described Gangs of London as “amulticultural world of global crime as it intersects on the streets ofLondon.” The situation in the city becomes a powder keg with the incitingincident of the assassination of the leader of a major criminalorganisation, which creates a power vacuum that makes the city rife forwarfare amongst the underworld.
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The series also stars Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones), Mark Lewis Jones(Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Jing Lusi (Crazy Rich Asians), Brian Vernel(Dunkirk), Richard Harrington (Poldark) and Emmett J Scanlan (PeakyBlinders) among others.
No release date for Gangs of London has been announced yet.
