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Before we start, note that this isn’t confirmation or an announcement or anything. There are currently no announced plans to continue the Silent Hill film series.
In an interview with Blairewitch.De, actress Radha Mitchell, who played Rose DaSilva in the two Silent Hill feature films, talked briefly about her relationship with the series’ producer Samuel Hadida, and whether she’d be open for more films. Warning, the interview was originally in German, so this is a little Google-translated (I.E. almost gibberish)
“I’m good with Samuel Hadida, one of the producers of the series, we’re friends. If there should be an opportunity to work together again, that would be great. I think what Christophe Gans has done in regard to the appearance (of the film), is incredible.
At first-I liked very much that he made an almost exclusively female Cast. I would like to see Rose somehow manage to escape from the underworld, all work together to defeat the darkness, then the sun rises and all are happy. Rose is forever in hell”
So that’s neat. The first Silent Hill film is widely regarded as one of the better, if not the best, video game to film adaptations. While it didn’t follow the original game’s plot to a T, it followed the atmosphere and visual style flawlessly, and made great use of remixing Akira Yamaoka’s musical work on the video game series. Its sequel, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, not so much. While Revelation 3D managed to keep much of the visuals and sound design from the first film, as well as a spattering of fan-service easter eggs and appearances, it sacrificed the poetic and heartfelt story and atmosphere that the first film had for an over-the-top mash-up of 3D set piece moments, generic Halloween BOO moments and actors like Malcolm McDowell hamming it up like they’re doing a performance for a kid’s birthday party. It isn’t the worst game movie ever, but goddamn does it try to be.
It isn’t impossible that we’ll see another film in the series; Revelation 3D made more than double its budget back in the box office, but who knows when it would happen. Silent Hill‘s future as a gaming franchise seems to be completely in the dark at the moment, and who can say how much that will effect the films. Its production company, Davis Films, did just wrap on Resident Evil: The Final Chapter‘s shooting, so it stands to reason that they’ll probably want to keep something similar in the grinder with that franchise (presumably) over. The film’s director, Micheal J. Basset, stated that if he did make another film, he’d rather adapt from one of the comics rather than directly from the games. This should work out just fine, since the comics are honestly pretty awful and have little to nothing to do with the games. Guess we’ll see.
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