Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo will be marking his return to American films after two decades with his upcoming Silent Night. The makers have announced that the film is slated for a theatrical release on December 1, with Lionsgate attached as the distributor.

Silent Night is the story of a father who gets to witness his son's death following being caught in crossfire on the day before Christmas. As the incidence takes his voice, the father is on a journey to avenge his son's death.

With Joel Kinnaman starring as the lead, the cast also includes Scott Mescudi – better known as Kid Cudi, Harold Torres, and Catalina Sandino Moreno, among others. Silent Night has script by Robert Archer Lynn.

It is to be noted that the film will not have any dialogues. Speaking about this, Kinnaman said to Collider, "Some people thought like, 'Oh, that's easy. You don't have to learn any lines,' but it's not, because the eyes don't lie. And often the dialogue, it will help you get there. It would help you get emotionally there. So it's actually a lot harder to portray everything that you just have to have that kind of inner life and that inner motor and those thought processes going for real. You just can't hide. So I think it's very revealing when there's no dialogue. And so it was a great challenge, and I was very excited that he wanted to do it with me."