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Norman Reedus Talks Briefly About ‘Silent Hills’
I fall in and out of love with AMC’s The Walking Dead all the time, but I’ve always been fond of Daryl, the group’s strangely lovable crossbow-wielding badass. Norman Reedus has made that character into one of the few consistently fantastic things about the show. We may know him as Daryl for now, but I suspect that will change once Silent Hills begins its descent from a fiery sky on a chariot made out of old E.T. Atari cartridges, because that’s something Kojima would do.
Silent Hills is going to help the world stop seeing him as that cool guy with the crossbow and start seeing him as that way cooler dude who totally just bludgeoned Pyramid Head to death a second ago with the butt of his flashlight.
Reedus recently took to that magical corner of the Internet we refer to as Reddit for a very special AMA. Most of the questions were aimed at The Walking Dead, but Silent Hills did come up briefly when the actor replied to a question about his experience with it so far, saying “I’m super excited to be a part of [Silent Hills]. Both those guys are geniuses at what they do. We haven’t shot the heavy stuff yet. Kojima approached me right after Guillermo did.”
What do you think this “heavy stuff” is? My guess is it has something to do with the radio broadcasts from the P.T. demo. Stories of fathers brutally murdering their families while chanting strange number combinations would qualify as “heavy”, I think.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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