Santa’s naughty listing is getting somewhat longer within the first trailer for Violent Night 2, which bowed at CinemaCon Wednesday throughout the Universal presentation. David Harbour stars as a vengeful Santa Claus within the sequel to the 2022 authentic, with Kristen Bell becoming a member of the franchise as Mrs. Claus.
The footage started with Harbour’s Santa, who has been kicked out of his gig on the North Pole and finds himself wandering round a mall on the holidays. He stumbles upon the mall Santa setup and sees children writing their want lists as he confides in them that “maybe I killed too many people.” Harbour goes on to develop into the mall Santa himself, when it’s revealed that his elves are out to kill him by way of a mission from Jared Harris’ villain.
As he fights off assaults inside the mall, Harbour guarantees “I have reinforcements coming” — which units up the arrival of Bell, who declares, “Get your own man, he’s taken” as she swings in to save lots of him. And don’t anticipate the normally dowdy Mrs. Claus; she’s rocking a classy crimson match with white trim, accompanied by some severe weapons expertise.
Tommy Wirkola once again directs Violent Night 2, with producers Kelly McCormick and David Leitch of 87North again, together with screenwriters crew Pat Casey and Josh Miller.
Newcomers to the solid embrace Daniela Melchior and Joe Pantoliano.
In 2022, Wirkola told The Hollywood Reporter he had ideas of parts for a sequel that didn’t match into the unique. “We don’t see the North Pole, we don’t see Mrs. Claus and we don’t see the elves,” Wirkola stated. “There were also a few ideas that we loved in the script, but we had to cut them because we couldn’t afford to shoot them.”
The movie has a launch date of Dec. 4.
