section_path: Production
section_name: Production
paragraph_text: Production
  
  On February 19, 2021, it was announced that Gareth Evans was attached to direct the film from a screenplay he wrote under his exclusive deal with Netflix. Evans received sole credit for the screenplay, with Scott Frank and John Lee Hancock receiving off-screen Additional Literary Material credit. Evans was also announced as a producer on the film alongside Tom Hardy and Ed Talfan for Severn Screen as well as Aram Tertzakian of XYZ Films.
  
  Alongside the initial announcement, Hardy was cast in a lead role. Forest Whitaker was added to the cast the following month. In June 2021, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Cornwell, Jessie Mei Li, and Yeo Yann Yann joined the main cast, with Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán, Sunny Pang, and Michelle Waterson cast in supporting roles.
  
  The film began principal photography on July 8, 2021, in Cardiff, Wales, where production predominantly took place. The film is "one of the biggest films ever to be produced in Wales" and left a "lasting legacy for filmmakers". Hardy was sighted at the Barry Island Pleasure Park in South Wales and outside the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea in July and August 2021 respectively. On October 22, 2021, filming officially wrapped. An initial cut of the film was delivered to the studio in February 2022, but the film needed reshoots, which were delayed until July 2024 due to scheduling conflicts and the SAG-AFTRA strike.
  
  While it was shot primarily in Wales, the film is set in an unnamed fictional United States city, merging elements of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia (such as an elevated train and a Chinatown district.)
  
  On February 19, 2021, it was announced that Gareth Evans was attached to direct the film from a screenplay he wrote under his exclusive deal with Netflix. Evans received sole credit for the screenplay, with Scott Frank and John Lee Hancock receiving off-screen Additional Literary Material credit. Evans was also announced as a producer on the film alongside Tom Hardy and Ed Talfan for Severn Screen as well as Aram Tertzakian of XYZ Films.
  
  Alongside the initial announcement, Hardy was cast in a lead role. Forest Whitaker was added to the cast the following month. In June 2021, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Cornwell, Jessie Mei Li, and Yeo Yann Yann joined the main cast, with Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán, Sunny Pang, and Michelle Waterson cast in supporting roles.
  
  The film began principal photography on July 8, 2021, in Cardiff, Wales, where production predominantly took place. The film is "one of the biggest films ever to be produced in Wales" and left a "lasting legacy for filmmakers". Hardy was sighted at the Barry Island Pleasure Park in South Wales and outside the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea in July and August 2021 respectively. On October 22, 2021, filming officially wrapped. An initial cut of the film was delivered to the studio in February 2022, but the film needed reshoots, which were delayed until July 2024 due to scheduling conflicts and the SAG-AFTRA strike.
  
  While it was shot primarily in Wales, the film is set in an unnamed fictional United States city, merging elements of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia (such as an elevated train and a Chinatown district.)