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Christophe Gans Says He’s Working on New ‘Silent Hill’ and ‘Fatal Frame’ Movies!
It’s been nearly ten years now since the Silent Hill franchise was up on the big screen, with the first adaptation in 2006 followed by the lackluster Silent Hill: Revelation in 2012. That damn good, game-faithful first movie was directed by Christophe Gans, who seems to have made the surprise announcement that a new Silent Hill movie is in the works!
Speaking with the French website Allocine, and translated by various sites including Rely on Horror, Gans teased a new Silent Hill movie and a Fatal Frame movie as well!
“I have two horror film projects with [producer] Victor Hadida,” Gans told the site. “I am working on the adaptation of the video game Project Zero (known as Fatal Frame in the United States, editor’s note). The film will take place in Japan. I especially don’t want to uproot the game from its Japanese haunted house setting. And we’re also working on a new Silent Hill.”
He added, “The [Silent Hill] project will always be anchored in this atmosphere of a small American town, ravaged by Puritanism. I think it’s time to make a new one.“
Gans went on to describe his experience with making the 2006 movie as being “beautiful,” and that the studio fully allowed him to make the movie *he* wanted to make.
As for Fatal Frame, a Japanese live-action movie was released back in 2014, and plans of a movie for American audiences go all the way back to 2003. Long time coming!
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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