Globally admired Chinese filmmaker John Woo is geared up for his Hollywood directorial comeback in an action film titled ‘Silent Night’ featuring Joel Kinnaman. The eagerly anticipated film is slated to be released in theatres on 1st December 2023. So, John Woo’s film would clash with Jeff Nichols’ star-studded drama ‘The Bikeriders’.
A unique aspect about ‘Silent Night’, and as the title rather suggests, is that the film would not have any dialogues in it. The movie would mark a much-awaited return of John Woo to Hollywood as he last directed Ben Affleck in the sci-fi actioner ‘Paycheck’ way back in the year 2003. So, it’s been twenty long years.
The basic plot of ‘Silent Night’ revolves around a father who ventures into the underworld in order to avenge the death of his son, who gets caught in a gang’s crossfire. The bereaved father goes through a brutal training regimen while recovering from an injury which resulted in the loss of his voice.
The Swedish American actor Joel Kinnaman, who plays the lead role of the father in John Woo’s ‘Silent Night’, is known for his roles in the television series ‘The Killing’, ‘Altered Carbon’, 2014 ‘Robocop’ remake, James Gunn’s ‘Suicide Squad’, and more recently in ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ co-starring Nicolas Cage. The actor’s likable screen presence combined with John Woo’s distinguished filmmaking style should be a treat for action movie aficionados.
Although revenge themed action movies are an age-old Hollywood sub-genre, with John Woo at the helm in his Hollywood comeback, some interesting fireworks are bound to happen. John Woo’s repertoire of cinematic works include some popular Hong Kong action films such as ‘The Killer’, ‘A Better Tomorrow’, and ‘Hard Boiled’.
John Woo’s Hollywood action movies portfolio boasts of films like Van Damme’s ‘Hard Target’, military action thriller ‘Broken Arrow’ starring John Travolta and Christian Slater, ‘Face/Off’ starring Nicolas Cage and John Travolta, and the second ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie starring Tom Cruise, amongst other films. So, high hopes for his next Hollywood venture ‘Silent Night’.