14 DAY TRIAL // The string of videogame to movie adaptations seems to never end and today brings news of the possibility that a Silent Hill 2 movie might be helmed by the same screenwriter and producer team that worked on the first release. Roger Avary and Samuel Hadida are set to create a sequel to the 2006 project.
The movie should be shot sometime in 2010, after shooting on Resident Evil 4, another film based on a videogame, wraps up. David Films will be handling production. The first movie bearing the Silent Hill name managed to get 47 million dollars in earnings in the United States. It told the story of a woman who travels to Silent Hill in order to seek a solution to the unusual health problems that plague her daughter only to be attracted in a complex supernatural plot.
Roger Avary is best known for having worked on Pulp Fiction, the essential Quentin Tarantino movie of the '90's and for putting together a script based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Hadida also has a long involvement in important titles, working on Good Night and Good Luck with George Clooney and on The Rules of Attraction.
The Silent Hill videogames are uniquely suited for a silver screen transformation. The atmosphere is very important and has a cinematographic feel to it. There's little actual combat in the titles and the antagonists whom the main characters face are iconic, with Pyramid head perhaps being the best known of the lot. There are also enough character interactions to be explored and analyzed.
It remains to be seen whether the second movie will follow the plot of Silent Hill 2, arguably the best videogame in the series, or whether it will blend elements of more than one title. The new Silent Hill movie does not have a release window or a distributor at the moment.