The first images have been released of a new Holywood action thriller starring Tom Hardy which was shot and produced across south Wales.

Havoc, written and directed by Welshman Gareth Evans, features filming locations in Cardiff, Swansea, and Port Talbot – despite being set in the US.

Hardy plays a detective fighting his way through the criminal underworld threatening to engulf his entire city.

The film’s stars were also spotted enjoying time off in places such as Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, while shooting back in 2021.

During the film, which launches on Netflix on 25 April, Hardy’s character, Walker, is forced to face up to the demons of his past as he attempts to rescue a crooked politician’s estranged son in the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong.

The team got creative with what Wales had to offer, with Swansea’s Guildhall even transformed into a US police station.

Posting to Instagram, director Evans, who hails from Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said making the film had been “a long old road filled with scheduling issues, strikes and more scheduling issues” but added he was “beyond excited and privileged to be working with such immense talent” .

The University of Glamorgan scriptwriting graduate made his filmmaking name in Indonesian action crime films such as The Raid.