Joel Kinnaman Gets His Death Wish in Trailer for John Woo’s Silent Night: Watch

Bryan Kress
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Joel Kinnaman is getting his revenge on murderous thugs by killing them softly in the trailer for Silent Night, John Woo’s first American directorial effort in 20 years.

The movie follows Kinnaman’s grieving father character, who takes action against a gang that killed his son and robbed him of his voice on Christmas Eve, but beyond the relatively straightforward tale of righteous vengeance lies a wildly ambitious undertaking behind-the-scenes: Silent Night features virtually no dialogue.

Although Hollywood may be nearly a century past the peak of its silent film era, the first trailer for Silent Night proves that Woo’s mastery of elaborate action set pieces will offer some true innovation to the genre. Complete with nonstop hand-to-hand combat, car chases, and high-caliber gun fights, the movie will surely still bring the noise. Watch the trailer below.

In July, Woo, whose last American film was 2003’s Paycheck, told Variety that the movie’s challenging conceit “allowed me to use visuals to tell the story, to tell how the character feels.” He later added, “I had to force myself to use a new kind of technique. Some scenes were about two or three pages, but I did it all in one shot.”

The score, which will play a much larger role in lieu of dialogue, was written by Academy Award nominee Marco Beltrami, who was the go-to composer for the late Wes Craven and previously worked on dialogue-lite fare such as A Quiet Place, The Hurt Locker, and Logan. His score for the National Geographic documentary film Free Solo won an Emmy in 2019.

Silent Night arrives in theaters on December 1st via Lionsgate. It stars Kinnaman alongside Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Harold Torres, and Catalina Sandino Moreno. The screenplay was written by Robert Archer Lynn.

Joel Kinnaman Gets His Death Wish in Trailer for John Woo’s Silent Night: Watch
Bryan Kress

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