Gangs Of London
Edinburgh TV Festival 2020
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41m
The team behind Sky original Gangs of London, Sky’s biggest drama launch since Chernobyl,
reunite to dissect the appeal of the critically acclaimed family crime epic. The show’s stars,
Sope Dìrísù and Pippa Bennett-Warner join award-winning creator and director Gareth
Evans, writer Lauren Sequiera and Pulse Films executive producer, Thomas Benski, to
discuss the challenges and opportunities for storytelling on TV versus film, choreography of
the fight scenes, and how they delivered the style of big budget, US sensibilities to the UK’s
small screen.
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