Silent Hill Remake Rumors

[lazyfatbum]

Silent Hill 1 Re-Release?
Actress suggests Konami's readying a remake of sorts.
by Patrick Klepek, 03/16/2006
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Someone may have finally done it; someone in Hollywood may have finally understood what it takes to adapt a videogame properly for the silver screen. Silent Hill fans are understandably anxious for the release of the Christophe Gans-directed take on Konami's survival horror series, but thankfully, word on the movie has been nothing but good.
In fact, buzz on Silent Hill has been positive enough that Konami may even take a look at tweaking the original game to capitalize on the movie's potential success. Fan run website Silent Hill forum picked up a copy of the latest issue of horror magazine Fangoria, where Konami's apparently expressed a surprising amount of praise for Gans and his work.

Gans has already agreed to participate in a Silent Hill sequel if the movie does well next month, and he's even looking into adapting another one of the company's franchises - may we suggest the long awaited Metal Gear Solid movie?

Most interesting to gamers, though, should be the idea that Konami's allegedly interested in remaking the original Silent Hill and replacing the original male lead of Harry Mason with the film's female lead, Mason's wife. When Konami was contacted about the possibility, though, public relations head Marc Franklin said "this is just a rumor."

An all-new Silent Hill won't be released on the current generation machines, but with plenty of life still in PlayStation 2 and the like, a revisiting to Silent Hill's origins certainly couldn't be out of the question. We'll be crossing our fingers, and so should you.

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It makes sense, replacing the lead character, using the graphics engine of SH 4 and sending the game out with a price around 30 bucks. Movie tie in plus it would be awesoome to boot, as SH is one of my favorite games would love to see it remade. I dunno about playing as the wife though... story wise it wouldn't make sense. So maybe it'll be something like you play silent Hill rght BEFORE Harry gets there, or he arrives during the game and you never meet, etc. That would work.

Come on konami, we know you wanna try out the revcon... do it. DO it...... DO it.

[Weltall]

No, it doesn't make sense. I hate this on so many levels. Replacing Harry with Rose completely fucks up both SH1 and SH3.

I'm all for a remake of SH1, but not if they make that kind of fundamental change.

[Great Rumbler]

Silent Hill 1's graphics really haven't aged well at all, so it would be good if they did a remake.

No, it doesn't make sense. I hate this on so many levels. Replacing Harry with Rose completely fucks up both SH1 and SH3.

I heard that the creator said he doesn't like remakes and that he'd only do this if some changes such as this were made.

[Weltall]

Well, the original creater (Toyama) is no longer involved with Team Silent. The current head of the team is Akira Yamaoka. I don't know for sure what his position is, but I'd really hate it if he damaged the canon of the series like this. I'd absolutely love to see a remake of SH1 with updated aesthetics, but only if it remains true to the original. I'd rather not see one at all than see one with such fundamental changes.

It's like, the more I hear about this movie, the more I dislike it.

[lazyfatbum]

Well, isnt it not impossible to reason a time line where the wife enters Silent Hill before Harry and his adopted daughter? Sequentionally it's grounded but didn't she commit suicide some years before SH1?

This confuses me, because i had thought that the film was taking place after SH1 and right before SH2 (though SH2 has really nothing to do with the whole daughters and gods story)

[Weltall]

Well, isnt it not impossible to reason a time line where the wife enters Silent Hill before Harry and his adopted daughter? Sequentionally it's grounded but didn't she commit suicide some years before SH1?

This confuses me, because i had thought that the film was taking place after SH1 and right before SH2 (though SH2 has really nothing to do with the whole daughters and gods story)

The unnamed Mrs. Mason dies of illness four years prior to the game.

The film is very much outside the canon of the game series, in many ways. It takes place in West Virginia (the Silent Hill of the games is in Maine), and it takes place today, whereas SH1 took place in 1983... which would pass explanation except that many of the characters in SH1 that reappear in the movie (Dahlia, Cybil) don't survive the first game. That's why I'm really hoping they don't remake the game to reflect the events of the movie. The current canon is just fine as it is. I don't mind so much that the movie is outside canon, as long as it stays that way.

[lazyfatbum]

so... the film is taking place after every SH game (SH4 was in 2004 right?) And yet characters that died are returning? Did they do their homework enough to warrant the return of the characters as members of Silent Hill's inner sanctum (Ghosts of Silent Hill?). It's been done in the game, but only because the character you were playing as were directly connected to those people who hhad died and was now seeing their ghost.

[Weltall]

No, it's more like they're re-telling the first game, and changing many of its aspects, such as the location, date, people involved, etc. Imagine if they replaced Richard Rountree with Samuel Leroy Muthafuckin' Jackson, and made a movie called SHAFT that took place in the 90's instead of the 70's... oh shit, that's right...

[lazyfatbum]

That sucks, there's no reason to throw SH's story out and fabricate a new one... unless it's copyright issues.

Shit all you'd have to do is take the original SH and make the dialogue more interesting.

huh.... radio....