Legendary action director John Woo is about to make a return to Hollywood after a 20 year absence with Silent Night, an action thriller that will be told entirely without dialogue. It is set for a December 1st release date.
Silent Night stars Joel Kinnaman (For All Mankind), Scott Mescudi, most known as rapper Kid Cudi, Harold Torres (Memory) and Catalina Sandino Moreno (From). It is a gritty revenge tale that “follows a tormented father (Kinnaman) who witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang’s crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life’s mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge his son’s death.”
The film was written by Robert Archer Lynn (Prisoner) with John Wick production company Thunder Road Films having produced with Christian Mercuri, Lori Tilkin deFelice, Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee and Woo. Lionsgate acquired distribution for the film with Capstone Studios and A Better Tomorrow Films also having produced.
Woo is most known for his Hong Kong action thrillers and often credited as creating ‘gun fu’ in films, blending close quarters fighting with intense shootouts that have become much more commonplace in action films like The Matrix, John Wick, Equilibrium and more. Some of his most famous and beloved Hong Kong films are A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Hard Boiled.
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After Hard Boiled, he emigrated to the US and began working in Hollywood where he made several more action thrillers that have become staples of the genre, including the Nciolas Cage and Jon Travolta thriller Face/Off, Broken Arrow and even Mission: Impossible II. His last film in Hollywood was 2003’s Paycheck and he moved back to Hong Kong where he began making films there and in China.
Silent Night will be released on December 1st.
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