LunarWeaver
12-30-2006, 07:38 PM
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6163606.html?tag=latestnews;title;1
There are a slew of film adaptations of video games in production right now, Hitman, Alice, and Postal, for example. Now, according to director Christophe Gans, Silent Hill 2 can be added to that list.
Gans, the Antibes-born director of the first Silent Hill movie, has revealed that a second SH film is on the way, and that it will correct the mistakes of the first.
The original Silent Hill, released on April 21 2006, told the story of Rose Da Silva, a mother who sets out to find a town called Silent Hill, which her daughter Sharon calls to in her sleep.
Gans confirmed in an interview with French magazine DVDrama, "There will indeed be a Silent Hill 2 and it is officially ordered and is already well underway. Once he has finished his adaptation of Driver, Roger Avary will be [working on the script], helped by his friend Neil Gaiman."
Roger Avary is a Canadian-born director, producer, and writer. He has previously worked on the screenplays for the first Silent Hill, Killing Zoe, and won an Oscar for his work on Pulp Fiction.
British author Neil Gaiman is most famous for his series of Sandman graphic novels, and has also worked on screenplays for the TV series of his novel Neverwhere, as well as Mirrormask and Princess Mononoke.
However, Gaiman's actual contribution is now under some doubt, after a post on his own blog stated, "Yesterday I discovered pretty much all of my FAQ messages were people asking whether I was really going to be writing the Silent Hill sequel with Roger Avary. I'm afraid that I don't think I am--I mean, it's the first thing I've ever heard of it, and I'm sure that if they make a sequel Roger would want to write it himself."
Gans' original statement has since been re-translated, so until there is clarification from Gans or Gaiman, some mystery still shrouds the title's development.
Gans added that he may not have time to take on the project himself, due to his commitments on the adaptation of another video game project, Onimusha.
When asked who he would like to direct if he was unable to, Gans told DVDrama that, "If I cannot take on Silent Hill 2 myself, the director who does would need to continue in the same style as the first film. One does not want to make a Hollywood-style movie, and I think that it makes sense if the director of the sequel is European--in the best case scenario, French."
He also revealed that he was planning a special two disc collector's edition DVD of the original Silent Hill, but that would be a long time coming, possibly not for two and a half to three years--and that he intends to start work on it only after finishing up on Onimusha.
I had such mixed feelings about the first that I'm not sure I want another one. Silent Hill the movie was not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, it's rather awful. But I have this nagging feeling in my head that keeps saying "Yeah, but they got close to getting it right, and that's something." They at least tried to retain the feeling of the games and translate it to another medium.
Hopefully they get it right this time... American audiences are too used to getting everything explained, everything has to have a reason for being like it is, and I wish they wouldn't bother with that because then they could make a Silent Hill movie where the town simply is evil because it is with minimal backstory about it. It's either that or squeeze such a convoluted story into 2 hours that a little girl literally explains the whole plot at the end of the movie to the audience.
Anyway, what I'm trying to get at is I wish they would follow the second game's plot, which was the best in my opinion. That game didn't really bother with the why but simply followed James's story, and to me it was much better off for it.
Edit: On a side note, all these other game-to-movie adaptions this article mentions makes me shake my head at the way they will most certainly turn out. Postal? Postal deserves a movie?
There are a slew of film adaptations of video games in production right now, Hitman, Alice, and Postal, for example. Now, according to director Christophe Gans, Silent Hill 2 can be added to that list.
Gans, the Antibes-born director of the first Silent Hill movie, has revealed that a second SH film is on the way, and that it will correct the mistakes of the first.
The original Silent Hill, released on April 21 2006, told the story of Rose Da Silva, a mother who sets out to find a town called Silent Hill, which her daughter Sharon calls to in her sleep.
Gans confirmed in an interview with French magazine DVDrama, "There will indeed be a Silent Hill 2 and it is officially ordered and is already well underway. Once he has finished his adaptation of Driver, Roger Avary will be [working on the script], helped by his friend Neil Gaiman."
Roger Avary is a Canadian-born director, producer, and writer. He has previously worked on the screenplays for the first Silent Hill, Killing Zoe, and won an Oscar for his work on Pulp Fiction.
British author Neil Gaiman is most famous for his series of Sandman graphic novels, and has also worked on screenplays for the TV series of his novel Neverwhere, as well as Mirrormask and Princess Mononoke.
However, Gaiman's actual contribution is now under some doubt, after a post on his own blog stated, "Yesterday I discovered pretty much all of my FAQ messages were people asking whether I was really going to be writing the Silent Hill sequel with Roger Avary. I'm afraid that I don't think I am--I mean, it's the first thing I've ever heard of it, and I'm sure that if they make a sequel Roger would want to write it himself."
Gans' original statement has since been re-translated, so until there is clarification from Gans or Gaiman, some mystery still shrouds the title's development.
Gans added that he may not have time to take on the project himself, due to his commitments on the adaptation of another video game project, Onimusha.
When asked who he would like to direct if he was unable to, Gans told DVDrama that, "If I cannot take on Silent Hill 2 myself, the director who does would need to continue in the same style as the first film. One does not want to make a Hollywood-style movie, and I think that it makes sense if the director of the sequel is European--in the best case scenario, French."
He also revealed that he was planning a special two disc collector's edition DVD of the original Silent Hill, but that would be a long time coming, possibly not for two and a half to three years--and that he intends to start work on it only after finishing up on Onimusha.
I had such mixed feelings about the first that I'm not sure I want another one. Silent Hill the movie was not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, it's rather awful. But I have this nagging feeling in my head that keeps saying "Yeah, but they got close to getting it right, and that's something." They at least tried to retain the feeling of the games and translate it to another medium.
Hopefully they get it right this time... American audiences are too used to getting everything explained, everything has to have a reason for being like it is, and I wish they wouldn't bother with that because then they could make a Silent Hill movie where the town simply is evil because it is with minimal backstory about it. It's either that or squeeze such a convoluted story into 2 hours that a little girl literally explains the whole plot at the end of the movie to the audience.
Anyway, what I'm trying to get at is I wish they would follow the second game's plot, which was the best in my opinion. That game didn't really bother with the why but simply followed James's story, and to me it was much better off for it.
Edit: On a side note, all these other game-to-movie adaptions this article mentions makes me shake my head at the way they will most certainly turn out. Postal? Postal deserves a movie?