I would recommend Brad Anderson. The guy made Session 9 creepy. I think he can do Silent Hill. | |
He would be a damn fine choice. | |
Zack Snyder should do it. But with all his Watchmen money he's probably too good for a sequel gaming movie now. | |
Maybe its because I never played Silent Hill but I rather enjoyed the movie. I can think of many other directors that would have done a far far worse job and they are big name assholes. | |
Really? His style seems a poor fit for Silent Hill. | |
Sorry how is a film being revilled by critic's a patch on Gans? Most fans and movie goers loived it which is more important. Customer>Critic | |
i think that the second should be made but by someone who's not going to turn it to hell. Personally i thought the first was pretty decently done....but.... | |
I could be interesting if the director for Jacob's Ladder directed a Silent Hill movie. Something like the Creature being redeveloped by the creator. | |
Hmmm... And I liked the first movie. No, it wasn't perfect, and yes I wish they stuck to the games more, but the bash on Christianity added a mythical tie more solid than the town being simply "evil". After all, what is evil without Gods or a God? | |
Sure, Adrian Lyne would be great. However, he didn't do anything since 2002. I'm still pushing Brad Anderson. Session 9 was one of the inspiration for Silent Hill 2 and 3. It's a freaky movie worth watching. The only thing bad is David Caruso and the line....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CudA99mUoz0 Anyway, I recommend the movie. | |
You raise a good point, and while I think 'love' might be slightly too strong a word, it certainly did well enough to make a sequel happen. However, for those of use who weren't so keen on it, much of the blame falls squarely on Gans, who - as I mentioned in the article - both co-wrote and directed the film. | |
I watched it as a stand-alone, and from that perspective it wasn't terrible. Not the world's best but I still enjoyed it. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. | |
question: Why is ther even going to be a sequel? | |
David Lynch would be perfect. | |
I 100% agree. i thought the movie was great, and it didn't bother me that it wasn't exactly faithful to the video games. taking out of that context, it was a damn fine horror movie, not perfect, but better than a lot of the slop they churn out to the piggies today. | |
Answer: Hollywood's attraction to easy money. | |
I've yet to be disappointed by Gans films - And I was shocked to see someone understand the source material so well. Bugger the plot, Silent Hill's stories are shallow human indulgences avenged by something deeper. The individual storylines are by intention irrelevant - the point is the corrupt mirror-landscapes, the mist/smoke, the creatures, the lost humans trying to survive, the way everything seems to be a message, lesson or metaphor - then suddenly explodes into torturous chaos in your bemused face. Before cutting it off.. Gans knows Silent Hill - Knows and loves it. I'm skeptical about the sequel without his involvement. | |
I don't care who directs it as long as they don't change a thing about Silent Hill 2. Assuming that they're doing the second game. If they change a fraction of the story other than the puzzles, the whole thing will collapse. I'm a hardcore SH fan, and to see this series ripped up again will break my Pyramid shaped heart. | |
I am waiting so long for the 2nd SH movie and I hope they do a good job! | |
I actually thought the Silent Hill movie was quite good, but I guess Your Mileage May Vary applies for this one. Maybe with a new director, the sequel will turn out to be a better movie- hopefully one without a confusing ending and several vague sub-plots. | |
Doubtful, since they used man going and searching for his wife in Silent Hill storyline already, plus they've used Pyramid Head, so there goes that mystery and discovery. That's all tied to James and his character development. They could try using these existing film characters and do husband searching for wife in Silent Hill, but it seems that Radha Mitchell isn't attached, so there goes that. Perhaps they will look to Silent Hill 3 for story since it is a direct sequel to the first game, where much of the movie's plot was lifted from. | |
I put my vote in for Pascal Laugier as director. | |
Silent Hill is the best game to (live action) movie ever made in my opinion and Ganzshould definitely be allowed to finish what he started. | |
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New Director For Silent Hill Sequel
Christophe Gans, director of 2006 Silent Hill, is unlikely to return for the sequel, according to actress Radha Mitchell.
Speaking in an interview with the website Bloody Disgusting, Mitchell spoke about long delayed Silent Hill 2. She said that the movie was still being 'kicked around' but would probably not see the return of director Christophe Gans.
"I don't think Christophe is attached," said Mitchell. "[That] is a shame because he's a nutter but he's so passionate about the game. I think he should do it if they do it again." Mitchell herself has expressed an interest in appearing in the movie - in a cameo role of course - as one of the myriad monsters that populate Silent Hill.
But is losing Gans such a bad thing? The Silent Hill movie was almost universally reviled by critics, and as Gans both directed and helped to write it, perhaps the sequel would do better without him? Silent Hill changed many of the details from the game, including significant changes to the main protagonist and the antagonist and added a critique of Christianity that seemed to be entirely Gans' own creation.
While the reactions of the cinema-going audiences have been a little kinder, Silent Hill is still a divisive movie, with some lauding its art direction; others lamenting the egregious liberties taken with the story; and some - like myself - doing both. Would a Silent Hill movie that followed the games more closely finally prove that videogame movies aren't all garbage?
With a decent director/writer combo, it just might.
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