Violent Night Interview: Writers Pat Casey & Josh Miller on Keeping Santa Heroic
writers Pat Casey and Josh Miller about the upcoming holiday action movie. The duo discussed David Harbour’s portrayal of Santa Claus and their thoughts on“When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint,” reads the synopsis.
Josh, there’s been violent Santas before. Futurama has a really funny one, and we’ve seen various horror takes, but this is very unique as he’s still a hero. What about that specific framework did you really like for this movie?I think that was part of the idea that … I feel like Christmas horror has become such an increasingly popular thing, almost more and more every year. It was the idea that it’s not really a Santa movie, in our mind, if Santa is killing people.
With David Harbour, the casting nailed it because he’s charming, he’s funny, and has a physicality.
You guys are adapting It Takes Two, which is a phenomenal video game. The director of that Josef Fares, who has a film background, and that’s been so unique seeing his video games since he has that cinematic eye. So with that, what about that game spoke to you and made you want to adapt it?I mean, in some ways it’s the fact that it’s so obvious — at least to us and all the people involved in making it — what the premise is.
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