It’s solely been a number of weeks since David Habour posted photographs on his private Instagram with Santa Claus, sparking debate that he was maybe prepared to start manufacturing on Violent Evening 2, the sequel to the 2022 R-rated Christmas motion flick. Now, the scriptwriters have delivered a extra concrete replace on the movie, and whereas it does seem like in energetic growth, it’s maybe not transferring fairly as quick as followers would need. It’s been over two years because the premiere of Violent Evening, which earned robust opinions of 74% from critics and 88% from common audiences on Rotten Tomatoes whereas incomes $76 million on the field workplace on a $20 million price range.

Whereas chatting with Display screen Rant to advertise Sonic the Hedgehog 3, scribes Pat Casey and Josh Miller revealed how work on the movie goes. Miller provided, “We’re closing in on attempting to get a draft out, so we’re nicely underway. Mildly distracting to have Sonic 3 dropping similtaneously our deadline, however I suppose champagne issues.” With Casey including:

“Yeah, as quickly as we get off this morning’s interviews, we’re proper again into the Violent Evening 2 salt mines, however I believe it may be lots of enjoyable. I want we had a date to announce, however we do not but. However everyone actually desires to get it going, so hopefully quickly, we’ll have have extra strong info. But it surely’s a little bit laborious to schedule round David Harbour, at the moment, on account of he is a busy man with sure different big mega franchises that, sadly, appear to get scheduling precedence over us, for some inexplicable cause.”

The truth that the writers are nonetheless engaged on getting a primary draft in means it can probably be nicely into subsequent yr earlier than the movie can formally begin filming until the executives at Common resolve to present Violent Evening 2 the inexperienced gentle to start manufacturing earlier than the script is full, which often doesn’t finish nicely. At this stage, it appears unlikely that the Violent Evening sequel will probably be able to launch in time for the subsequent vacation season; it could in the end be a four-year hole between Violent Evening films if the sequel doesn’t launch till 2026. Along with David Harbour as Santa, Violent Evening additionally stars John Leguizamo as Scrooge and Alexis Louder as Linda, and the movie was directed by Tommy Wirkola.

What Else Does David Harbour Have Coming Up?

Harbour can at the moment be heard because the voice of Frankenstein in Creature Commandos and because the voice of Pink Guardian in What If…?, and he’ll additionally reprise his position as Pink Guardian subsequent yr in Marvel’s Thunderbolts*, which is due in theaters on Could 2, 2025. He’ll additionally group up with Jason Statham subsequent yr for A Working Man, beforehand titled Levon’s Commerce, the motion thriller from David Ayer that additionally stars Michael Peña. He’s even been tapped for a job in The Trashers, the true crime thriller from Cooper Raiff and Adam R. Pearlman that additionally stars Olivia DeJonge and Cooper Hoffman.

Violent Evening 2 doesn’t have a launch date, and it is unknown when the movie will start manufacturing. Keep tuned to Collider for future updates and watch Violent Evening on Starz.

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