The David Harbour-led vacation thriller is now out there on streaming.
There isn’t any doubt that 2022’s Violent Night time was a smashing success, making over $75 million globally towards a price range of $25 million. After making over $50 million {dollars} in revenue, Violent Night time’s director Tommy Wirkola has confirmed a sequel is within the works with Pat Casey and Josh Miller returning to pen the script. Shortly after the movie hit theaters, producer Kelly McCormick informed Collider that Violent Night time 2 was already on the filmmaking crew’s radar for upcoming initiatives saying, “We’re hoping to start out engaged on a ‘Violent Night time 2,’ if every thing goes properly the following few weeks.”
It seems like every thing went in line with plan as Wirkola just lately informed The Wrap that there might be extra Christmases for Santa (David Harbour) to save lots of. The director spoke in regards to the sequel whereas discussing Violent Night time’s upcoming residence video launch. He famous that offers are being made for the sequel to occur, revealing that it gained’t start filming anytime quickly as a result of the crew has to determine the script. Wirkola, nevertheless, added that there’s a lot to work with, particularly with the standard Santa Claus mythology which incorporates the North Pole, Mrs. Claus, and the elves. Wirkola mentioned:
“We now have time to actually crack the script and work out the story. And we’ve some concepts, me, Pat and Josh and the producers. We’ve been speaking about the place we wish to take it and what we wish to see. There’s stuff we left on the ground just like the North Pole, Mrs. Claus, the elves, however story-wise I feel we’ve a extremely, actually cool concept that expands on the world and scope, however nonetheless preserving that tone that we love from the primary one.”
With the success of the primary movie, viewers are in for a enjoyable journey when the sequel releases, particularly if Wirkola makes good on the promise of weaving in additional Santa Claus mythology that we solely bought a style of within the new vacation traditional. Violent Night time follows Santa as he tries to save lots of Christmas for the Lightstone household when they’re attacked by harmful criminals. It is Santa, in fact he is there to save lots of the day, however this Santa is completely different from the milk-and-cookies-loving bearded man talked about in fairytales. This Santa is badass and able to break the bones of naughty adults.
Alongside Stranger Issues’ Harbour, Violent Night time stars John Leguizamo, Cam Gigandet, Alex Hassell, Alexis Louder, Leah Brady, Edi Patterson, and Beverly D’Angelo.
Violent Night time might be launched on Blu-ray, and DVD on January 24, and it will likely be out there for buy wherever Blu-ray is offered. The film is now out there for streaming on Peacock. You may try our dialog with Harbour down beneath.
