Silent Hill Sequel Film Begins Filming In April, Here is What We Know

Manufacturing is about to start out in April on Return to Silent Hill, the most recent installment within the franchise primarily based on the favored Konami horror video video games. In accordance with a launch, director Christophe Gans will return for the sequel, and Jeremy Irvine (Battle Horse) and Hannah Emily Anderson (Jigsaw, X-Males: Darkish Phoenix) are set to star.

Return to Silent Hill relies on Silent Hill 2, and comes from a script by Gans, Sandra Vo-Anh, and William Josef Schneider. A synopsis reads: “The movie follows James, a person damaged after being separated from his one real love. When a mysterious letter calls him again to Silent Hill seeking her, he finds a once-recognizable city remodeled by an unknown evil. As James descends deeper into the darkness, he encounters terrifying figures each acquainted and new and begins to query his personal sanity as he struggles to make sense of actuality and maintain on lengthy sufficient to save lots of his misplaced love.”

Return to Silent Hill is produced by Victor Hadida below his Davis Movies banner. Hassell Free Productions’ Molly Hassell and David Wulf are additionally behind the manufacturing. Manufacturing is about to start out in April in Germany and Jap Europe.

“Return to Silent Hill is a mythological love story about somebody so deeply in love, they’re keen to go to hell to save lots of somebody,” Gans mentioned. “I am delighted to have the great abilities of each Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson take us on this journey right into a psychological horror world that I hope will each fulfill and shock followers of Silent Hill.”

The Silent Hill franchise has been standard for a few years, with the online game collection first debuting in 1999. The collection is understood for its eerie, atmospheric horror and has spawned quite a few spin-offs, comics, and a 2006 movie adaptation, additionally directed by Gans.