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Silent Hill Movie Filming Begins
GamesIndustry.biz has word that principal photography has begun on a film adaptation of the Silent Hill game series. From the article: "The film will star Radha Mitchell - best known for her role in Pitch Black - as lead character Rose, a woman who finds herself exploring the mysterious town whilst searching for her missing daughter. Sean Bean will play Rose's husband, and other cast members include Deborah Kara Unger (Crash, The Game) and Kim Coates (Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbour)."
Hopefully the movie will give me an idea of WTF Silent Hill 2 was about...
(was James dead? in hell? alternate reality? Were Eddie, Laura, etc there with him or just figments, etc, etc)
That means its off to a great start :P
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I could have sworn I read a while ago that Uwe "take your favorite franchise, kill it and rape its corpse" Bol had acquired the rights to make the Silent Hill movie.
The general track record on movie-conversions of games is pretty terrible, but if any franchise should translate well, it's Silent Hill. Of course, this relies on having a director bright enough to know that big fire-fights and heros with super-powers are NOT scary. The absence of Uwe allows at least a faint glimmer of hope.
Sounds like Silent Hill 1, except instead of Harry Mason looking for his daughter it's this chick named Rose.
What the hell? What's so hard about taking the game's plot and characters and adapting them to film? Do you HAVE to change every single damn thing so that those who love the series can't relate to the movie at all?
Would someone please -- PLEASE -- make a movie based on a videogame franchise that doesn't alter the mythos at all? Please? I'll pay money to go see it! Pinky swear!
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