David Harbour Takes on Dark Holiday Thriller Violent Night from Dead Snow Director Tommy Wirkola

Stranger
Things
star
David
Harbour
will
lead
his
own
action
franchise
in
Universal
Pictures’

Violent
Night,
which
stems
from
the
mind
of

John
Wick
and

Nobody
director
David
Leitch
and
is
now
set
for
release
in
December
2022.
The
man
behind
the
world
of
the
hugely
popular
action
franchise
that
is

John
Wick
will
be
on
producer
duty,
with

Violent
Night
set
to
be
directed
by



Tommy
Wirkola,
of
horror
comedy

Dead
Snow
fame,
working
from
a
script
written
by

Sonic
the
Hedgehog’s
Pat
Casey
and
Josh
Miller.

Specific
details
surrounding
the
plot
of

Violent
Night
are
being
kept
under
wraps
for
now,
but
the
movie
has
so
far
been
described
as
a “coal-dark
holiday
thriller
that
says
you
should
always
bet
on
red.”
What
that
means
exactly
is
anyone’s
guess,
but
it’s
hard
not
to
wonder
if



David
Harbour
will
play
an
action-oriented
version
of
Santa
Claus…

David
Leitch,
who
has
become
a
serious
player
when
it
comes
to
the
action
movie
genre
thanks
to
his
work
on
the
likes
of

John
Wick,
Atomic
Blonde,
Deadpool
2,
and

Fast
and
Furious
spin-off
Fast
&
Furious
Presents:
Hobbs
&
Shaw,
will
producer

Violent
Night
alongside
Kelly
McCormick.
Leitch
most
recently
gave

Better
Call
Saul
star
Bob
Odenkirk
his
chance
at
punching
and
kicking
nameless
bad
guys
in
the
brilliantly
brutal

Nobody,
which
hit
screens
earlier
this
year.
He
will
next
demonstrate
his
talents
for
action
in

Bullet
Train,
which
stars
a
stellar
ensemble
cast
including
Brad
Pitt,
Joey
King,
Andrew
Koji,
Aaron
Taylor-Johnson,
Brian
Tyree
Henry,
Zazie
Beetz,
Masi
Oka,
Michael
Shannon,
Logan
Lerman,
Hiroyuki
Sanada,
Karen
Fukuhara,
Bad
Bunny
and
Sandra
Bullock,
and
follows
five
assassins
who
find
themselves
on
a
Japanese
bullet
train,
realizing
that
their
individual
assignments
are
all
interconnected.

As
for
David
Harbour,
the
actor
has
seen
his
star
rise
rapidly
ever
since
starring
in
Netflix’s



Stranger
Things.

Violent
Night
will
not
be
Harbour’s
first
dalliance
with
the
action
movie
genre,
with
the
actor
having
led
director
Neil
Marshall’s
disappointing

Hellboy
reboot,
battled
Chris
Hemsworth
in
the
Netflix
smash-hit

Extraction,
and
most
recently
joined
the
Marvel
Cinematic
Universe
as
the
super-soldier
Alexei
Shostakov
AKA
Red
Guardian
in

Black
Widow.

David
Harbour
will
soon
return
to
his
most
famous
role
as
Jim
Hopper
in
the
upcoming
fourth
season
of

Stranger
Things.
While
the
majority
of
details
are
being
kept
under
wraps,
it
has
been
revealed
that
Hopper
survived
the
explosive
finale
of
season
3,
with
the
intrepid
sheriff
having
been
imprisoned
far
from
home
in
the
snowy
wasteland
of
Kamchatka,
Russia,
where
he
will
face
dangers
both
human…
and
other.
Meanwhile,
back
in
the
States,
a
new
horror
is
beginning
to
surface,
something
long
buried,
something
that
connects
everything.

Harbour
has
since
revealed
that
the
season
will
reveal
details
of
Hopper’s
backstory
saying, “So
there
are
these
three
things
that
we’ve
established
in
the
season
that
if
we
don’t
pay
off,
it
means
that
they’re
bad
writers.
And
the
Duffer
brothers
are
very
good
writers.
So
I
know
specifically
that
in
Season
4
we
will
give
you
a
big,
huge
reveal
about
Hopper’s
backstory.”

There
is
currently
no
word
yet
on
when
production
on



Violent
Night
will
begin,
but
with
the
movie
currently
set
to
hit
theaters
on
December
2,
2022,
one
would
expect
it
to
be
soon.
This
comes
to
us
from

The
Hollywood
Reporter.