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"SILENT HILL MOVIE?"
Silent Hill is on its way to the silver screen, publisher Konami announced today!
Producer Samuel Hadida and Davis Films have picked up the rights to the popular horror adventure series and signed directer
Christophe Gans, of Brotherhood Of The Wolf and Crying Freeman. The film is due for worldwide release in
2005. Silent Hill is a groundbreaking game with an atmosphere that has mesmerized millions of gamers all over the world, it
is scary and clever! Iam very proud to be associated with this game. - said Gans. Though the announcement omits any mention
of other specific budget or staff details, Konami staff will apparently be involved in the films production. Konami staff
will oversee script development, assist with the design of the films human and monstrous cast, and collaborate on soundtrack
composition. Konamis announcement aslo mentions that it is pursuing film deals for other videogame franchises, which naturally
gives rise to speculation regarding many different possible projects.
I will keep an eye out for news of such in the near future!
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updated on June.10/2004
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"Konami Agreed To Film Production"
Konami Corporation (CEO: Kagemasa Kozuki) has teamed with Samuel Hadida and his production company Davis
Films Sarl to produce a live feature adaptation of the popular horror adventure videogame Silent Hill.
Samuel
Hadida is the prolific producer who brough to the screen True Romance directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin
Tarantino, Brotherhood of the Wolf directed by Christophe Gans, Spider directed by David Cronenberg and other
famous films. Konami will participate in the production of the film from script supervision, monsters' design and sound creation
to accurately recreating the universal appeal of the game. The Silent Hill horror action game will evolve from the
small screen to the big screen.
Christophe Gans, who directed the blockbuster epic Brotherhood of the Wolf
as well as Crying Freeman, has been appointed as the director of the Silent Hill movie, "Silent Hill is a groundbreaking
game which atmosphere has mesmerized millions of gamers all over the world, it is scary and clever. I am very proud to be
associated with this game".
The Silent Hill series (produced by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, Inc.,
President: Michihiro Ishizuka) is a horror adventure game set in a town shrouded by fog and darkness, where the player confronts
a variety of monsters. Its images have received high acclaim in the North America and European markets, labeled "THE MASTER
OF HORROR ADVENTURE" with its total combined sales of over four million copies in Japan, the United States and Europe.
Konami
will actively pursue film production of its game content, with the aim to further strengthen the KONAMI brand worldwide.
I will keep an eye out for news of
such in the near future!
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updated
on Oct.19/2004
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"Silent Hill Plot Posted!
Storyline for game-to-film adaptation released"
Silent Hill producer Don Carmondy recently posted a synopsis for the forthcoming
game-to-film adaptation on his personal website.
The story apparently centers around a woman desperate to save her dying child who gets trapped in an alternate reality
while search for her daughter in a dangerous world of filled with demons. The setup goes like this:
Rose cannot accept the knowledge that her daughter Sharon is dying of a fatal disease. Over the protests of her husband,
she flees with her child, intending to take the girl to a faith healer. On the way, she ends up driving through a portal in
reality, which takes her to the eerie and deserted town of Silent Hill
Sharon disappears in Silent Hill, and Rose
follows what she thinks is her daughter's silhouette all over town. It's soon clear the town is not like any place she's ever
been. It's inhabited by a variety of creatures and a living darkness that descends and literally transforms everything it
touches. The human inhabitants – the ones who are left – are trapped and fighting a losing battle against the
Darkness.
Joined by a cop named Cybil, who has been sent to bring her
and Sharon back, Rose searches for her little girl while learning the history of Silent Hill and that Sharon is just a pawn
in a larger game.
To save her daughter, Sharon makes a deal with a demon in the
form of a little girl, and allows the forces of darkness to take the town and destroy those who tried to destroy the demon.
In the end, she saves her daughter but at a high price.
A 2006 release is planned
for Silent Hill. ~~updated on Feb.23/05~~
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"SILENT HILL 5?"
Will Konami make another Silent Hill game? Media fans have said there love
for the Silent Hill game has been dramatic ever since the first game came out in 1999, and the game it self has made a big
impact last year when Silent Hill 4 came out for the first time. With the new horrific, breathtaking and
newest characters in the game no one can settle for just 4 we need a new series for a new Silent Hill adventure.
Will it be at a continue or is Konami closing the book on Silent Hill?
I will keep an eye out for news of such in the near future!
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updated on Jan.02/2005
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"Unofficial Rumor on SH5"
"Now that Silent Hill 4 is completely finished
and set for release on Sep. 8 in North America, development on SH5 has begun to gain speed. Currently titled 'Silent Hill
5: Shadows of the Past' (The subtitle will most likely be dropped or changed), Konami wants to return to the same idea of
SH2, which means they want a powerful story unrelated to other games in the series yet still ties into the dark history of
SH. So what is the story? Like the previous games, Konami wants to keep it as secret as possible. But, they do have a brief
synopsis which they've sent out to some shareholders who wanted to know what Konami was up to in the future. Here's what it
read:
In 2006, gamers across the globe will return
to Silent Hill for the final time on the PS2 in Silent Hill 5: Shadows of the Past. In the first time for a SH game, players
will play through the game in flashbacks, retelling the main character's harrowing trip through a town worse than hell.
Here's a little more backstory for the game:
The game starts with the main character being held in a mental institution. The flashbacks occur when the doctors interview
your character and ask him exactly what happened in Silent Hill. Expect many twists and turns in the storyline, especially
a big one at the end that supposedly has the Silent Hill team excited.
Like the synopsis says, this will be the last
SH on the PS2. It definetely won't be the last of the series though, Konami wants another Silent Hill on the PS3 as soon as
possible."
I will keep an eye out for news of such in the near future!
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updated on Feb.19/2005
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"SH5 Coming Next Generation"
The fifth episode of the gruesome Silent Hill series was confirmed today, but
is being designed with next generation console hardware in mind.
During an interview to be published later this week, chief designer of the game
Masashi Tsuboyama admitted that the title is already being planned for next generation machines, although Konami has yet to
decide which one.
Asked if there would be a further Silent Hill game after the release of The Room,
out next month on PS2, Xbox and PC, Tsuboyama-san first clarified rumours that it would not be called 'Shadows', but was happy
to confirm that there would be ongoing adventures in the series.
"One website said we are creating a fifth [Silent Hill] called Shadows - we don't
know where they got their information from; obviously it's not Shadows that we are creating, but we are creating the next
one.
"We're not sure which hardware we will put [it out on], but [it will be] on the
best one, be it PS3, be it Xbox 2... It won't be on the current consoles," he confirmed.
The news therefore means that The Room will be the last game in the series for
some time, with next gen machines not expected to be released until some point in 2006.
Meanwhile, responding to criticism that The Room is too action-focused at the
expense of puzzle solving, he retorted: "I don't take that as a negative. That was the concept all along."
I will keep an eye out for news of such in the near future!
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updated on May.17/2005
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"Silent Hill Coming on the big screen April 14. 2006!"
Its finaly happening! Its been officially announced that the Silent Hill Movie
is going to be released world-wide in theaters April 21.2006! For more information about the movie go to Silent Hill Movie
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updated on Jan.12/2006
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Silent Hill 2 movie confirmed!
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 that "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 and 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 retranslated, 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 see direct if he were 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 Onimusha.
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updated on Jan,09/2007
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