Violent Night: Cam Gigandet, Edi Patterson join David Harbour in Tommy Wirkola’s holiday thriller

Back in November, it was announced that David Harbour of Stranger Things and Black Widow would be starring in Violent Night, a holiday thriller coming to us from Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola. Since then, John Leguizamo (Land of the Dead), Beverly D’Angelo (National Lampoon’s Vacation), Alexis Louder (Copshop), and newcomer Alex Haskell have joined the cast. Now Deadline reports that two more cast members have signed on: Cam Gigandet (Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse) and Edi Patterson (The Righteous Gemstones). Details on the characters they’ll be playing have not been revealed. In fact, the only character and actor match-up we know for sure is that Harbour is playing Santa Claus.

Scripted by Patrick Casey and Josh Miller (Sonic the Hedgehog), Violent Night will show us what happens when

a team of elite mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage. But the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus (Harbour) is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.

Set up at Universal, Violent Night is being produced by David Leitch and Kelly McCormick of 87North Productions. Leitch is best known for co-directing the first John Wick movie (although he wasn’t credited as co-director), and has since followed that up by directing Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. Universal Pictures’ Executive Vice President of Production Development Matt Reilly and Director of Production Development Tony Ducret are overseeing the project for the studio.

Santa taking down mercenaries in a movie directed by Tommy Wirkola and produced by David Leitch sounds like a recipe for a good time to me, especially with Harbour playing Santa. Does Violent Night sound like a movie you would like to watch? Let us know by leaving a comment below.