{"id":177175,"date":"2025-06-12T01:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177175\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T01:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:48:09","slug":"violent-night-2-release-date-set-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177175\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent Night 2 Release Date Set for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ho-Ho-Horrordays are coming in 2026;<strong> Violent Night 2 <\/strong>has officially set a release date.<\/p>\n<p>87North and Universal will release Violent Night 2 in theaters <strong>December 4, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s interesting, is that while Santa Claus actor <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3848880\/violent-night-2-filming-soon-david-harbour-teases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>David Harbour<\/strong><\/a> confirmed his return recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/06\/violent-night-2-2026-release-date-1236431329\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline<\/a> reports that it remains unclear whether director <strong>Tommy Wirkola<\/strong> will be back to helm the sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Last we heard,\u00a0<strong>Pat Casey<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Josh Miller<\/strong>\u00a0will be back to write\u00a0Violent Night 2. \u201cThere\u2019s stuff we left on the floor like the North Pole, Mrs. Claus, the elves,\u201c director Tommy Wirkola noted last year. \u201c<strong>But story-wise, I think we have a really, really cool idea that expands on the world and scope but still keeping that tone that we love from the first one<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2022\u2019s Violent Night, \u201cA team of elite mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage. But the team isn\u2019t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus (Harbour) is on the grounds, and he\u2019s about to show why this Nick is no saint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Violent Night is essentially a bloody mashup of several holiday classics including Die Hard, Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, and\u00a0Bad Santa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Leguizamo, Beverly D\u2019Angelo<\/strong>\u00a0(Christmas Vacation),\u00a0<strong>Alex Haskell<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong>\u00a0Alexis Louder<\/strong>\u00a0also starred in\u00a0Violent Night, featured alongside <strong>Edi Patterson<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Cam Gigandet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/reviews\/3741970\/violent-night-review-bloody-holiday-action-movie-earns-a-spot-on-the-nice-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I wrote in my review for BD<\/a>, \u201cDirector\u00a0Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow) infuses his gore-soaked sense of humor into an amalgamation of familiar holiday fare, ushering a new crowd-pleasing Christmas-set actioner eager to splatter the snow red.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>87North founders Kelly McCormick and David Leitch are back as producers.<\/p>\n<p>With a release date now set, details about the sequel should be forthcoming, including whether Wirkola will officially return. The filmmaker\u2019s next project is shark horror movie <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3861353\/tommy-wirkolas-shark-thriller-swims-into-2026-with-new-title-shiver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shiver<\/a>, set for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for developments on\u00a0Violent Night 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ho-Ho-Horrordays are coming in 2026; Violent Night 2 has officially set a release date. 87North and Universal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[16796,77,3943,73107,16,15,73108,73109],"class_list":{"0":"post-177175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-david-harbour","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-tommy-wirkola","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-violent-night","15":"tag-violent-night-2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114667880704118534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}