Silent Hill movie!?!?!?

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| Silent Hill Goes To The Silver Screen|
An increasing number of game franchises have been slated for motion picture treatment, most recently Majesco's BloodRayne. Now it's Konami's turn. Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo's Silent Hill series is headed to Hollywood, it was announced. The movie's production will be in the hands of Davis Films.

Attached to the project is producer Samuel Hadida, whose credits include True Romance, Spider, and Brotherhood of the Wolf, the latter of which was directed by Christophe Gans. Konami confirmed that Gans would be the director. Gans' other credits include H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon: Book of the Dead and the Japanese anime Crying Freeman.

Konami will be working closely with Davis Films on the film's script, creature and character design, and soundtrack. Konami did not provide details on the cast, filming location, or schedule and did not indicate whether the film would adapt specific episodes in the series or follow an original storyline set in the Silent Hill universe.

The Silent Hill series has sold more than four million copies worldwide on several platforms. Konami says that it is pursuing film production deals for its other franchises, but it did not detail which series. Other highly visible Konami series include Metal Gear Solid, Contra, and Castlevania.
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Do you guys think this movie will happen?

Well Alone In The Dark is coming out soon with Christian Slater and Tara Reid... so the fact that even more movies based on video games are getting green lighted doesn't surprise me at all. Hopefully SILENT HILL will fare better than HOTD and the Tomb Raider flicks. *Too bad no one's interested in doing a Metal Gear flick... but somehow Hollywood would find a way to fuck that up too I bet. I hear THE ROCK is doing a theatrical version of Spy Hunter as well.

BAH!

MD20XX / Storm Rider

Please god no Leave the games alone hollywood! Silent Hill needs to be left ALONE as it is!

I'm not so sure...

If it's Christophe Gans directing, then it has a chance of being good. At least going by Crying Freeman and "Le Pacte des Loups"/Brotherhood of the Wolf.

I wonder if we'll see Marc Decascos in this one.

Depending on your interpretation of the ending (and yes, it's meant to be open to interpretation, kind of like a David Lynch movie), there is already a movie out very close in story and tone to Silent Hill. Jacob's Ladder. Watch it and you'll see what I'm talking about.

SouthtownKid said:

Depending on your interpretation of the ending (and yes, it's meant to be open to interpretation, kind of like a David Lynch movie), there is already a movie out very close in story and tone to Silent Hill. Jacob's Ladder. Watch it and you'll see what I'm talking about.

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Well Konami did use Jacob's Ladder as their inspiration, so it makes perfect sense. Yet I feel American films cannot produce such a great Japanese Survival Horror again, since they will have to "tone" down the disturbing images from the series. Look at the Ring and compare it to "Ringu" is a prime example.

I think it just has to deal with people's culture on what "fear" should be. Because notice in the three major continents, Asia, NA, and Europe have different ideals on humor, fear, and sexuality in movies, tv, and media.

So trying to pull off Silent Hill, will be a challenge I would say to get it just right for the following three audiences (that being American, European, and Asian)

HHhhhhhmmmmmmm interesting.........I remember that thread now but I thought I was the first one to mention this movie. Oh well.........

Alone in the Dark as well............Tara Reid.

I guess we'll find out if this movie is any good sooner or later. So many movies lately has been based on video games. Why? I guess because of the popularilty of the game and they think the movies will have the same amount of success as the games.