Hardcore trailer for John Woo’s holiday action thriller SILENT NIGHT starring Joel Kinnaman

The first director’s trailer has arrived John Woois the next holiday action-revenge thriller Silent night, and it looks like it’s going to be a hardcore action movie! This is Woo’s first American film in 20 years and it looks like it will pay off! I can’t wait to watch it!

Movie stars Joel Kinnaman (The suicide squad) and the film is described as a “loud action tale, without a word of dialogue”. The trailer itself is also dialogue-free and focuses on the story and the crazy, brutal action that Woo has fun playing with.

The film tells the “gritty revenge story of a tormented father (Kinnaman) who witnesses the death of his young son when he is caught in a gang crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from an injury that costs him his voice, Kinnaman makes revenge his life’s mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen to avenge his son’s death. Filled with Woo’s signature style, Silent Night redefines the action genre with visceral, thrill-a-minute storytelling.

Woo said of the film: “Very interesting film. The entire film is dialogue-free. It allowed me to use images to tell the story, to tell how the character feels. We use music instead of language. And the film is all about sight and sound. The budget was a little tight and the schedule was tight, but it made me change my working style. Usually, for a major film, a studio film, we shoot a lot of coverage, then leave it to the editing room. But in this film I tried to combine things without doing cover shots. I had to force myself to use a new type of technique. Some scenes were about two or three pages, but I did it all in one take.

The film is also the protagonist Scott Mescudi aka Kid Cudi, Harold TorresAND Catalina Sandino Moreno. Silent Night has been rated “R” for “strong bloody violence, drug use and some language” and will be released in theaters on December 1.

Via: Entertainment Weekly