{"id":381738,"date":"2026-04-16T02:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/381738\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:12:07","slug":"violent-night-2-trailer-introduces-kristen-bell-as-mrs-claus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/381738\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Violent Night 2&#8217; Trailer Introduces Kristen Bell as Mrs. Claus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSanta\u2019s naughty list is getting a little longer in the first trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/violent-night-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_violent-night-2_1\" data-tag=\"violent-night-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Violent Night 2<\/a>, which bowed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/cinemacon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cinemacon_1\" data-tag=\"cinemacon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CinemaCon<\/a> Wednesday during the Universal presentation.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/david-harbour\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-harbour_1\" data-tag=\"david-harbour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Harbour<\/a> stars as a vengeful Santa Claus in the sequel to the 2022 original, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/kristen-bell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kristen-bell_1\" data-tag=\"kristen-bell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristen Bell<\/a> joining the franchise as Mrs. Claus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe footage began with Harbour\u2019s Santa, who has been kicked out of his gig at the North Pole and finds himself wandering around a mall at the holidays. He stumbles upon the mall Santa setup and sees kids writing their wish lists as he confides in them that \u201cmaybe I killed too many people.\u201d Harbour goes on to become the mall Santa himself, when it\u2019s revealed that his elves are out to kill him via a mission from Jared Harris\u2019 villain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAs he fights off attacks within the mall, Harbour promises \u201cI have reinforcements coming\u201d \u2014 which sets up the arrival of Bell, who declares, \u201cGet your own man, he\u2019s taken\u201d as she swings in to save him. And don\u2019t expect the usually dowdy Mrs. Claus; she\u2019s rocking a trendy red fit with white trim, accompanied by some serious weapons skills.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTommy Wirkola <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/violent-night-2-tommy-wirkola-returning-to-direct-1236263108\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">once again directs Violent Night 2<\/a>, with producers Kelly McCormick and David Leitch of 87North back, along with screenwriters team Pat Casey and Josh Miller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNewcomers to the cast include Daniela Melchior and Joe Pantoliano.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn 2022, Wirkola <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/violent-night-2-tommy-wirkola-sequel-1235276397\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> he had thoughts of elements for a sequel that didn\u2019t fit into the original. \u201cWe don\u2019t see the North Pole, we don\u2019t see Mrs. Claus and we don\u2019t see the elves,\u201d Wirkola said. \u201cThere were also a few ideas that we loved in the script, but we had to cut them because we couldn\u2019t afford to shoot them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe film has a release date of Dec. 4. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa\u2019s naughty list is getting a little longer in the first trailer for Violent Night 2, which bowed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[173642,197133,76381,156,26454,409,111,139,69,198438],"class_list":{"0":"post-381738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-cinemacon","9":"tag-cinemacon-2026","10":"tag-david-harbour","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-kristen-bell","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-violent-night-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}