‘Return to Silent Hill’ will bring Konami’s horror franchise back to movie theaters

Konami’s Silent Hill 2 remake for PC and PlayStation 5 is not the one reimagining of the traditional 2001 recreation on the horizon: The corporate simply introduced that the story can also be being tailored into a brand new main movement image. Return to Silent Hill will apparently function a direct sequel to the unique 2006 adaptation, and will likely be helmed by the exact same director, Christophe Gans.

The venture appears to nonetheless be within the growth part. There is no teaser trailer, only a handful storyboard photographs and items of conceptual art work. Gans spent a lot of the announcement speaking concerning the plot of the sport itself. “We determined to return to one of the best of those tales,” he mentioned throughout Konami’s Silent Hill Transmission reside stream. “The movie tells the story of a younger man coming again to Silent Hill, the place he has identified an awesome love — and what he will discover is a pure nightmare.” 

Victor Hadida, who additionally labored on the 2006 movie, can also be returning to provide, and says that whereas the venture is planning to present the franchise a contemporary twist, staying true to the spirit of the unique recreation is a key focus. Gans appears to agree, calling the unique Silent Hill video games “nice inventive achievements.”

Listening to Christophe Gans discuss concerning the venture is genuinely fascinating, because the director ponders the distinctive problem of translating the immersive narrative that solely a online game can ship right into a shorter 90-to-100-minute expertise. We can’t see how nicely he manages it for fairly a while, nonetheless. Return to Silent Hill doesn’t but have a launch date.