John Woo and Joel Kinnaman are set to team up for the new action film Silent Night. John Woo is a Hong Kong director who is well known for his stylized fight sequences, being instrumental in the creation of the "gun fu" subgenre and the frequent use of white doves in his imagery. He began to work in the Hollywood sphere in the 90's with films like Hard Target, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, and Mission: Impossible 2, the first sequel in the now-massive Mission: Impossible franchise.

John Woo's most recent American feature was the thriller Paycheck in 2003, which starred Ben Affleck and Aaron Eckhart and was generally poorly received. Although he continued to direct films in Hong Kong afterward and won the Career Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2010, he hasn't made a feature anywhere since 2017. In 2018, he was attached to remake his film The Killer with Lupita N'yongo, but she dropped out of the project in 2019 and nothing has been heard about it in recent years.

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Per Deadline, John Woo is coming back with a vengeance. He has cast Swedish-American actor Kinnaman in a new action flick titled Silent Night. Kinnaman will star in a rather standard action plot as "a father [who] heads into the underworld to avenge his young son’s death," but the entire movie is not going to have a single line of dialogue. It's still being described as "loud" because the movie will make full use of it soundtrack, but Silent Night will be completely wordless.

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Joel Kinnaman first made a splash in international markets with his roles in series like Altered Carbon, House of Cards, and The Killing. His first attempt at a big blockbuster film was the 2014 remake RoboCop, which made a profit but never got a sequel. However, he went on to play Rick Flag in the 2016 DC Extended Universe project Suicide Squad, a role he reprised in this year's The Suicide Squad under director James Gunn. His alternate history sci-fi series For All Mankind is also set to premiere its third season on Apple TV+ in 2022.

Silent Night certainly sounds like an interesting move for John Woo. The fact that the film doesn't contain any dialogue will certainly help the film appeal to international markets because there's no need for translation. However, the fact that the entire story needs to be told through imagery will give Woo a chance to flex his aesthetic muscles and prove that he's still the master of his craft.

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Source: Deadline