American rapper and artist Kid Cudi – who is credited as Scott Mescudi in his acting roles – has been tapped to star in the John Woo action thriller Silent Night. He joins a cast that includes The Suicide Squad‘s Joel Kinnaman.

The film follows Godlock (Kinnaman), a father on a mission to avenge his young son, after he was tragically caught in the crossfire of gang violence on Christmas Eve. Shot and almost killed while in pursuit of the murderers, Godlock vows to avenge his son by any means necessary. Mescudi plays a detective named Dennis Vassel.

Though that might sound like your pretty run-of-the-mill revenge thriller, Woo’s latest is said not to contain a single word of dialogue. Silent Night indeed. This marks the legendary Chinese filmmaker’s first Hollywood project since 2003’s Paycheck, though he is well known amongst Western audiences for directing the iconic Face/Off and Mission Impossible II. It’s also worth stating that Woo’s thriller bears no relation to last year’s Silent Night starring Keira Knightley, nor to the 2020 crime thriller of the same name.

Robert Lynn penned the screenplay, with the cast also including Harold Torres as the gang leader Playa, and Catalina Sandino Moreno as Godlock’s wife Saya. Silent Night is currently filming in Mexico City.

Mescudi was most recently seen in Ti West’s horror X and in the Oscar-nominated Don’t Look Up. He is set to write, star in, and make his directorial debut with Teddy – a Netflix comedy with Jay-Z and Jeymes Samuels (The Harder They Fall) attached to produce.