Draft:Silent Hill (2023 film)

Silent Hill is an upcoming psychological horror film written and directed by Christophe Gans. It is an adaptation of the Silent Hill video game franchise and a reboot of the 2006-2012 film series. The story centers on a small American town devastated by a Puritanical religion.

Development
In January 2020, Christopher Gans told French magazine Allocine that he was in the process of writing new screenplays based on the Silent Hill and Fatal Frame series with producer Victor Hadida. He stated the production of his previous Silent Hill film was a beautiful memory for him and he chose not return for the sequel Silent Hill: Revelation because his vision did not match that of the producers.

Gans and Hadida developed the concept and pitched it to rights holder Konami. According to Gans, the company felt galvanized by the success of Capcom's Resident Evil 2 remake and greenlit the film as part of an initiative to get Silent Hill back into the public consciousness. In June 2022, Gans stated that he finished the script under Konami's supervision while isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic and the project was eyeing a 2023 release. He clarified that it is not connected to the 2006-2012 film series and that his sensibilities had evolved since the release of the first film:

"'Silent Hill is a bit like Twilight Zone, the Fourth Dimension, a place where anything and everything can happen. I worked on a new Silent Hill which is a Silent Hill of the year 2023 and not a Silent Hill as I imagined it in 2006. It is clear that today's horror cinema no longer resembles the horror cinema of 2006. Good for that matter. Not that 2007 horror cinema wasn't good, but every genre is going through an evolution. I'm trying to take into account what I've been able to see recently, which is more original and more surprising in terms of horror films, and to see if in Silent Hill there are the seeds, or even the expression of that. Silent Hill has always been a game beyond the norm and ahead of its time.'"