Avary talks Silent Hill movie

By Ellie Gibson Published 31 March, 2006

It's all about the fans.

Roger Avary, author of the screenplay for the forthcoming Silent Hill movie, has promised that it'll be firmly based around the actual games.

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Avary said: "Christophe [Gans, the director of the movie] and I knew how passionate the videogame fans are for Silent Hill.

"At the minimum, we didn't want to piss them off. We wanted to make this movie for them."

Avary went on to observe that this isn't always the way with videogame tie-ins: "Hollywood executives are very quick to throw out the source material of a game.

"Doom kills me. That was one of the movies I wanted to do so badly. I met with them early on, and I looked at the original script and asked, where's the Doom in this?"

You'll be able to judge the Silent Hill movie for yourself when it opens here on April 25th.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Darkedge #1 6 years ago

    I hope silent hill is good and he's got a good point about doom - the script let it down really badly but could've been fixed.

  • mezzomorto #2 6 years ago

    Yep, hope he gets to make the film he actually wants too. However I always get a bad feeling when someone makes hard-to-live-up claims so early in a project (whether it be games or movies). The end result usually fails to live up to any of their claims.

    Pessimist - who, me?

  • TwistidChimp #3 6 years ago

    I think this has every chance of being awsome. Not least of all because the Silent Hill games have some of the most mature, well developed and interesting stories of any game i've yet played. 1 and 2 especially. They really were crying out for a movie treatment and everything i've seen of the film looks very promising. The trailer looks great, and so long as they've managed to fuse the 2 very different stories of 1 and 2 together in a decent way I'll be happy.

  • Blerk #4 6 years ago

    Silent Hill is enticing me to visit the cinema for the first time in over five years. So it'd better be bloody good!

    /shakes fist

  • dudefella #5 6 years ago

    Yeah, god forbid you get out of the house for a bad movie!

    Yes I have high hopes for this film

  • Tomo #6 6 years ago

    The posters and images do look absolutely excellent. Has it got a rating yet btw?

    I expect it'll be shite if it has a 12A :/

  • TwistidChimp #7 6 years ago

    Judging by the trailer i'd say it will be atleast a 15

    hd trailers

  • Tomo #8 6 years ago

    Heck! That trailer is excellent. I'm officially very excited now. Little girl from Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital in it too, she was good in that. I haven't played much of the games, but I recognised a fair amount of nods. They're fusing 1 and 2 together? Sounds interesting.

  • TwistidChimp #9 6 years ago

    Yeah no idea how they're going to combine the first 2 games, It looks like its 99% the first, with a few elements brought in from 2. If you ask me they should make the first 3 games as 3 different movies. All 3 would stand up as full length features I reckon.

  • Scurrminator #10 6 years ago

    well a recent clip seen by industry people showed pyramid head dude stick his hand into some guys chest, twist his fingers into the skin and then pull all the skin of it's body in one go, then holding the flayed corpse in his hand.
    No camera pulling away, just gore! so maybe an 18

  • jackstar #11 6 years ago

    This film is going to be the most faithful game to movie ever, you only have to watch the trailer to see that. people on here will still slag it off though, even if it turns out good, bloody hard to please tards!

    IT WILL BE FUCKIN AWESOME!

  • el_pollo_diablo #12 6 years ago

    I'm not that bothered about films from games TBH.

    That said, Avery is a decent enough director, with both Rules of Attraction and (to a lesser extent) Killing Zoe delivering the goods. Hmmm.

  • TheJanitor #13 6 years ago

    you can call me a fanboy or a geek if you want, but i have been doing all kinds of research on the movie since it was announced, from all interviews to all clips, vids, and whatever other info there is about it. and i can totally assure you: this movie will rule.

    silent hill owns.

  • saysomething #14 6 years ago

    Well, the trailer certainly rules, I must say.

  • Xerx3s #15 6 years ago

    Who cares, its SH, even if its shite, its better than the other crap thats in the cinema atm.

  • zozart #16 6 years ago

    Love that trailer! Definitely looking forward to this now.

  • yorkiebar #17 6 years ago

    and they've kept that scary ukelele music!

    ...bliss