Gangs of London fans, get ready: the hit Sky crime show will be back soon for a second season.
Near the beginning of 2020, Season 1 started with a lot of violence and blood, which both drew people in and scared them.
And if his recent comments are any indication, it doesn’t sound like director Corin Hardy has toned down the deaths, stabbings, or shootings in the upcoming second season.
When asked about the violence in the next episode, he told Metro.co.uk, “I’d say there’s a higher body count.”
Corin said about how important violence is to the story of the show, “It’s in the show’s DNA.” You live in a world where everyone is a criminal. Everyone in gangs is a criminal, and there is something interesting to watch when the characters are family members and you can relate to them.
“There’s this problem: Can you have a big family life and a big criminal life? Do you think that will work? It means making sacrifices and facing difficult choices, and sometimes those choices lead to violence.
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Fans will be happy to hear that key players like p Drsù, Paapa Essiedu, and Pippa Bennett-Warner will all be back. Waleed Zuaiter (Baghdad Central), Salem Kali (Dealer), Aymen Hamdouchi (SAS: Red Notice), Fady El-Sayed (A Private War), and French rapper Jasmine Armando are among the new cast members.
One important cast member might not come back, though, because the fate of Joe Cole’s character Sean Wallace wasn’t clear at the end of season 1.
But when are the new episodes coming out? Read on for all the information you need about season 2 of Gangs of London.
Gangs of Londons Season 2 Release Date
According to radiotimes, Gangs of London will be back on Sky Atlantic and NOW on October 20, 2022. This is a fact.
The official release date was set for September 23, 2022. The new season will come out two and a half years after the first one.
The new season started filming at the end of June 2021. This was after star p Drsù said earlier that the production was getting ready and that he was excited to get back into his character.
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The EE Rising Star BAFTA nominee said, “I would love for Elliot the same thing I would love for all people, which is peace of mind and happiness, but I don’t think that is where he is going.
“I think it will get a lot worse for him before it gets better, so I guess what I would like that is more realistic is a rollercoaster ride, something that he can look back on and say, “I lived through that, there were a lot of experiences.”
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What’s Gangs of London Season 2 About?
“One year after Sean Wallace’s death and the violent reckonings of series one, the map and soul of London have been redrawn. The remaining Wallaces are scattered, the Dumanis is broken and estranged, and ex-undercover cop Elliot is now forced to work for the investors.
“In order to get things back in order, the investors have joined forces with the heroin baron Asif Afridi, and together they have put a brutal gang leader named Koba in charge of London.
“His vision for the criminal world is a dictatorship, a world where old-school gangster codes don’t exist and he has a complete monopoly over London’s drug trade. But this monopoly can’t last forever. The gangs are fighting back. Who will win the battle for the soul of London?
“In Series 2 of Gangs of London, our old favorites and new players will fight back against the new order, forcing sworn enemies to work together and family members to betray each other. The series will introduce us to new characters and leaders we didn’t expect. It will be full of twists, turns, and exciting, cinematic action scenes.
Gangs of London Season 2 Cast
The following actors and actresses will be back for season 2 of Gangs of London: Elliot Carter/Finch was played by p Drsù, Marian Wallace was played by Michelle Fairley, Ed Dumani was played by Lucian Msamati, Alex Dumani was played by Paapa Essiedu, and Shannon Dumani was played by Pippa Bennett-Warner.
Asif Raza will also be back as the Pakistani heroin kingpin Asif. He will be out for revenge after his politician son Nasir (Parth Thakerar) was killed in brutal gang warfare.
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Some new people have joined the cast of Season 2, including Waleed Zuaiter (Baghdad Central), Salem Kali (Dealer), Aymen Hamdouchi (SAS: Red Notice), Fady El-Sayed (A Private War), and French rapper Jasmine Armando in her first TV role.
The other Wallace children, drug addict Billy (Brian Vernel) and A&E doctor Jacqueline (Valene Kane), planned to leave the country at the end of Gangs’ first season. We might see them again in the future, but we know we’ll also see Albanian mafia boss Luan (Orli Shuka) in season 2.
Even though he has been dead for a long time, Colm Meaney could still show up on the show as Finn Wallace in flashbacks.
Tim McInnerny as Jacob and Amanda Drew as Ms. Kane, who was introduced at the end of the first season as Finn’s mysterious investors are likely to be back for more. However, director Xavier Gens told Den of Geek that he expects “a new, big villain” to show up in the second season.
“We need to make a new one because there were so many deaths in the first season!” Gens said.
- Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù as Elliot Carter/Finch
- Paapa Essiedu as Dumani
- Lucian Msamati as Ed Dumani
- Michelle Fairley as Marian Wallace
- Orli Shuka as Luan Dushaj
- Pippa Bennett-Warner as Shannon Dumani
- Brian Vernel as Billy Wallace
- Narges Rashidi as Lale
- Asif Raza as Asif Afridi
- Valene Kane as Jacqueline Robinson
- Waleed Zuaiter as Koba
- Jasmine Armando as Saba
- Fady El-Sayed as Faz
- Salem Kali as Basem
- Aymen Hamdouchi as Hakim
Is Joe Cole in Gangs of London Season 2?
Sky released the official cast list for Gangs of London season 2 in June 2021, and Joe Cole’s name wasn’t on it. The official synopsis also said that Sean had died, but it’s still possible that he could make a secret cameo.
Some fans have thought that Sean Wallace might still be alive, even though he took a bullet to the head and the police said he was dead.
Elliot shoots him in the cheek, which is a big deal, and Gareth Evans adds to the rumors that he will live: “I don’t think we’ve said much about where Elliot shot him. If it had hit him right in the middle, he would have been dead for sure.”
So maybe Elliot and Sean could still work together to take on the investors.
