If it's true, it could turn out to be a decent sequel. I enjoyed the first Silent Hill but there was definitely room for improvement. Hopefully they will capitalize on the opportunity.

wow you dug Rules of Attraction too? that movie was awesome. hahah of course so was Silent Hill to (in my opinion), and Pulp Fiction. this is good to hear.

this is THE best news i've heard in a LONG time!!! i LOVE SILENT HILL and this means it's one more step to the sequel coming to fruition!! YEAY!!!!!

I'd be happy with this provided they got a decent writer this time round: The script for the first Silent Hill was shockingly bad.

That all depends on if Roger Avary can keep Christophe Gans' feel. The good news is that there is a familiarity crossover. Silent Hill 2 MUST cast actual actors. Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Bean and Alice Krige were great choices. It would be nice to have Silent Hill 2 follow the game of the same name. However, I do think it would be better if they kept Sean Bean's character to utilize the sequel as a continuation from part one. This could essentially fix the first movie in terms of confusion. Maybe when Chris/Sean Bean was in Silent Hill, he read something or touched something that locked Rose/Radha and Sharon/Jodelle in Silent Hill. This would show that he "killed" them without knowing. He would get this revelation near the end when he finds the dead Radha and Jodelle seeking their vengeance upon him.

I hope it's better than that first abortion.

Yeah, I had started writing a fan script for SH2. My thoughts were to make Sean Bean into James from SH2 (the game)--I always thought Sean Bean would make a good James, even before Silent Hill came out. Anywho, have Chris receive a message from Rose saying that they're in Silent Hill and they want him to come get them. Then, basically continue it as the story of the 2nd game.

When I say dead, I mean "dead." Also, there were obviously marital issues between Chris and Rose, so the Maria (Mary's seeming twin) character from the SH2 game would fit as the "better version." Rose's "twin" would just have to be named... Lily or Violet. With these parameters, I think SH2 would be a case where the sequel dominates the original.

cool i was wondering if there was ever going to be new news on the sequel. i liked the first one. i hope they can get everyone to return that was in the first one.

It would be a nice continuation to have Bean take on a similar role to James, but I think it would complicate what is otherwise a simple and effective story. I'd prefer this film to be entirely separate to the original, with pretty much the only connection being the town itself, like in the games. I'd like it to be bleaker and a much more sexual and devastating film visually than the original. The manifestation of Mary and Maria in James's guilt-ridden psyche make for some brilliant scenes on film. I'm very excited to hear that Avery is back behind the camera, he was the perfect person to helm the original, which I thought was an extremely difficult concept to bring to film so successfully.

It may be worth noting that Mr. Avary wrote & directed the really excellent Killing Zoe with Eric Stoltz.

Rules of attraction is an awesome movie!

i don't play the games but what CREATURES could there be? hopefully PYRAMID HEAD returns. he is AWESOME!!!

Silent Hill was a good movie all by itself, but was a poor adaptation of the games. That being said, it's probably the best video game to film movie there is (not saying a lot, I know; though I still dig the Double Dragon movie, what what?) So I'm totally down for a sequel. Let's just not get so caught up in the Hollywoodification of the first one. More focus on scares and atmosphere.

did anyone see Dark Floors? All i could think through the whole movie was, "wow, this hospital would be great for a silent hill movie"

The first movie was awful. Sequel? Pass.

I've met Ellis, he's a douche and his comments are ... intentionally ambiguous and often laced with sarcasm. So I'd take this as rumor and hearsay for now. Sure it would be nice, but until there is confirmation why are they even feeding the rumor machine with this? Oh yeah, I forgot that BD is just a gossip filled blog saturated with fanboy opinions and very little actual journalism. And Roger is directing Silent Hill 2.

Um, it would be kind of hard for Roger Avary to be directing anything anytime soon, given how HE'S IN PRISON and all. He crashed his car while drunk, killing the passenger inside.

awesome. I loved the first film! nailed the feel of the first game and Avary would do justice to the second film. How is it that Avary is in jail...and twittering? you can read his twitter crap up thru April 23rd.

Rollstuhlwolf, and yet here YOU are adding to all the "gossip and opinions" with your non-journalistic post.

cool, i guess, hes a good writer

"Oh yeah, I forgot that BD is just a gossip filled blog saturated with fanboy opinions and very little actual journalism." My heart goes pitter-patter for this poster. Let's go out for some pie, I say. Finally a non-sheep recognizes this overblown site for what it is: a glorified fan site.

Some amusing fellow decries the fact that actual journalism is not to be found here. Why read this; there's always the NY Times. Not sure how Ellis can be a "douche" as well as an intelligent man and a unique novelist. But I forget, this guy met him. Guess they struck up a long term relationship for this fellow to garner such insight. You guys are funny.

djblack, belive me, there are PLENTY of great, gruesome looking monsters from the games that wold look awesome on the big screen that weren't put into the first movie. Some of my favorites: Split Worm (SH3), Leonard Wolf (SH3), Sniffer Dogs (SH4), Twin Victims (SH4). My god, Twin Victims would be scary as hell if they put them in a film.

I just hope it won't be uber boring like the first one. It's a miracle i managed to finish viewing it in the theater, but no matter how many times i try to do the same on DVD, it's so mind-wearingly boring i always end up shutting it off. All i can say for Roger is he better give us something other than merely the first game's story tweaked into movie form. As a matter of fact, don't follow any of the game continuities and write an all-new original story using the concepts, maybe that'll help way more. People may protest that method with the Resident Evil movies but really, seeing the mansion incident with just a few tweaks would've gotten boring as well.