If we had a penny for every time a major Christmas movie got announced on 11 June, 2025, we'd have two pennies. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird th
If we had a penny for every time a major Christmas movie got announced on 11 June, 2025, we’d have two pennies. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice. Yes, following the wake-up shot that was the announcement Robert Eggers is tackling a recent take on A Christmas Carol over at Warner Bros., our mid-summer festive feeling intensified this morning with the news, courtesy of THR, that r-rated candy-canes-and-battle-hammers joint Violent Night is getting a sequel — and both director Tommy Wirkola and star David Harbour are returning.
Slated for a Christmas 2026 release, Violent Night 2 will continue the story of Harbour’s Santa Claus, who we first met as a pool ball and ice-skate wielding, jaded alcoholic just about ready to give up on the happiest season in the first movie, only for a home invasion and subsequent spell in the company of kiddo Trudy (Leah Brady) to rekindle some festive spirit in the age-old grumpster. Where exactly the sequel — which is being penned once more by writing duo Pat Casey and Josh Miller — will take Santa next is very much anybody’s guess at this point. But let’s be sincere here, we aren’t here for the next It’s A Wonderful Life: we’re here to watch David Harbour, aided and abetted by the crazy folk over at 87North (The Fall Guy, Ballerina), stick on the gigantic red suit and creatively dispatch hordes of baddies using a Christmassy arsenal of improvised weaponry. That’s the true spirit of Christmas anyway, really. Sort of. If you squint a bit.
Still, even without a direct steer on the plot for Wirkola’s sequel, we do know that the director has previously teased to THR the possibility of heading to the North Pole and meeting Mrs Claus and Santa’s elves in a prospective follow-up. All we’re saying here is that with Violent Night 2 set to shoot this September in Winnipeg ahead of a 4 December, 2026 cinema release, there’s still time for us to convince Tommy Wirkola to cast Winona Ryder as Mrs Claus, thus delaying our grief over the ending of Stranger Things later this year and giving us the badass Clauses we deserve. You know it makes sense…
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