In Christmas 2022, Stranger Issues star David Harbour gave us the best reward of all: a violent, motion hero Santa Claus. Titled Violent Evening, the festive action-comedy was well-received by each audiences and critics alike, and whereas a sequel was introduced in January 2023, nothing has but emerged. Nicely, it seems like Santa is certainly listening, as Harbour has now supplied a promising replace concerning Violent Evening 2 after being informed about fan demand for the follow-up by Comicbook.com.
“I don’t suppose you’re alone in that want. Nicely, maintain your eyes peeled as a result of I additionally love that film, and I believe that Common was enthusiastic about that concept as properly. So we’re working a little bit bit.
I do suppose there’s some very gifted folks engaged on it, so yeah, I’m enthusiastic about.”
So, it actually seems like Violent Evening 2 is at present being put collectively by the motion film Elves, which ought to make a variety of huge children very comfortable. Directed by Tommy Wirkola, the primary Violent Evening finds David Harbour within the lead because the form of Santa Claus that audiences haven’t seen earlier than. This Father Christmas is reaching into his sack and bringing out the massive weapons after a group of elite mercenaries breaks right into a rich household compound on Christmas Eve, taking everybody inside hostage.
Starring John Leguizamo, Beverly D’Angelo, Alex Hassell, Alexis Louder, Edi Patterson, Cam Gigandet, and André Eriksen alongside Harbour, Violent Evening made an excellent motion film reward, touchdown 74% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes alongside an excellent merrier 88% on the Popcornmeter.
Particulars of what we’d see within the Violent Evening sequel are unknown at current, however director Tommy Wirkola has teased what we’d see, with the filmmaker hoping to supply new takes on extra of the Santa lore, together with the Elves and Mrs. Claus.
“In fact the writers have talked about it, and I’ve thrown some concepts on the market. We don’t see the North Pole, we don’t see Mrs. Claus and we don’t see the elves. There have been additionally just a few concepts that we beloved within the script, however we needed to minimize them as a result of we couldn’t afford to shoot them. It’s such a cliché to say, however all of us had a blast doing this movie. So I actually hope we get to discover it extra.”
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David Harbour, in the meantime, has pitched his concepts for Violent Evening 2, and desires to remodel the motion outing into one thing akin to a live-action Rise of the Guardians…with Gladiator 2 and The Final of Us star Pedro Pascal because the Easter Bunny.
“We gotta get Pedro [Pascal] and Oscar [Isaac] to play the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy within the subsequent iteration: the Santa cinematic universe with a bunch of ‘daddies’ as imaginary creatures.”
Whereas we look forward to Violent Evening 2 to return down the chimney, David Harbour has loads of main tasks within the pipeline, together with a return to the MCU in Thunderbolts*, the ultimate season of Stranger Issues, and his debut within the DCU as Eric Frankenstein in Creature Commandos.
- Launch Date
- December 2, 2022
- Runtime
- 1hr 52min