John Woo is coming lower back to Hollywood to direct a talk-free Joel Kinnaman motion film

Left: John Woo (Andreas Rentz/Getty photos), correct: Joel Kinnaman (Shannon Finney/Getty images)

John Woo has been lured returned to Hollywood, curiously, having been drawn in by the irresistible prospect of Joel Kinnaman now not speaking.

Which is to assert that deadline experiences today that Woo—who hasn't made an English language picture for the ultimate 18 years, courting lower back to the Ben Affleck "variety of, style-of Philip k. Dick adaptation" Paycheck lower back in 2003—is set to direct Kinnaman in a brand new film titled Silent night. Which received't exactly be breaking that "no English language" streak, truly, due to the fact the critical conceit of the film is that it's an entirely speak-free motion thriller.

There's no screenwriter presently attached to the movie—which, fair adequate—however will curiously big name Kinnaman as a "a traditional father" who "heads into the underworld to avenge his younger son's dying." (The time limit reviews that the plot itself is "basic," which is awfully funny to us as a selling point for a narrative movie.)

Kinnaman has spent the closing few years organising his bona fides as an action famous person, most above all in his two Suicide Squad films. (He also performed RoboCop, in case you'd managed to come what may neglect the 2014 RoboCop remake.) (We had.)

Woo, meanwhile, has been perfectly busy—just no longer with making the kind of rain-soaked, dove-heavy action spectaculars that made him an international name in the Nineties, and a just a little dependable Hollywood presence from 1996 to 2003. outdoor of 2017's Manhunt, his recent films have all been chinese old epics of one stripe or one other, together with both red Cliff movies, and the extra contemporary The Crossing series, which blended romance, conflict, and catastrophe motion pictures into his greater established fashion.

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The attachment of Woo has, now not distinctly, raised Silent evening's profile significantly; deadline notes that distributors have already begun taking an activity that "Joel Kinnaman shoots people—however quietly" wasn't always generating.