New VIOLENT NIGHT Promo Video Focuses on Santa Combat Training
Universal Pictures has released a new promo video for the upcoming violent holiday action film Violent Night, which stars David Harbour (Stranger Things) as Santa Claus. In the movie, Santa finds himself brutally fighting a crew of criminals who are holding a family hostage on Christmas Eve.
This new video focuses on Santa combat training. In it, MTV Challenge’s Cory Wharton, RDC World’s Mark Phillips and Watcher’s Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej to see if they have what it takes to become a mercenary fighting Santa Claus with the help of the film’s stunt coordinator and 2nd unit director, Jonathan Eusebio.
In the film, “When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.”
The movie comes from the producers who brought us Nobody, John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Bullet Train and Hobbs & Shaw, and it’s described as a “coal-dark holiday action-comedy that says you should always bet on red.”
The film also stars John Leguizamo (John Wick), Cam Gigandet (Without Remorse), Alex Hassell (Cowboy Bebop), Alexis Louder (The Tomorrow War), Edi Patterson (The Righteous Gemstones), and Beverly D’Angelo (National Lampoon’s Vacation franchise).
The movie was directed by Tommy Wirkola (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Dead Snow franchise), and it will be released in theaters on December 2nd!