Silent Hill 2 Movie Still On Track
Silent Hill 2Many survival/horror fans say that Silent Hill 2 is still the best installment in the series to date, and those people will be happy to know that the movie is still on track.
This is according to IGN, and should come as good news to those who enjoyed the original "Silent Hill" big screen adaptation. Some thought the sequel wouldn't arrive, though, simply because screenwriter Roger Avary is currently serving time in jail for being involved in a 2008 car accident that killed someone. But the "Pulp Fiction" writer's incarceration may have only delayed proceedings, as the makeup designer for the original movie, Paul Jones, revealed this past weekend that storyboards for "Silent Hill 2" have already been started. Jones says the project is looking "pretty crazy" right now and ideally, they'll start shooting some time next year (right around the time Avary is released). We have no idea how this will turn out but you have to admit, if the screenplay follows the SH2 storyline, there should be plenty of intrigued followers. Hey, are we gonna see Pyramid Head? You wouldn't think that something that simply had a triangle for a head would be frightening, but that sucker scared the snot out of just about everyone. Let's just hope this sequel is good the whole way 'round.
We're not sure how many more games will get the Hollywood treatment, but it almost seems as if every major game release is destined to become a movie. Well, more chances to get it right, I guess.
Related Game(s): Silent Hill 2
11/15/2009 9:18:25 PM John Shepard
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Lotusflow3r
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 9:10:57 AM
What's SH without pyramid head? I don't know errm, SH 1, 3, 4? pyramid head was not just a character done for trademark effect, he was created to marry the story in Silent Hill 2. Team Silent made their games with such craft, such artistic intention, not for anything else like shock value or money like the crap movie and new games do.
WTF was james's manifestation doing in a horror movie that had nothing to do with James or Silent Hill?
Read my post below.
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WorldEndsWithMe
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 1:22:17 PM
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The_R0gue_Ninja
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 2:28:46 PM
That was my biggest complaint about the Silent Hill film... which is a somewhat small critique when stacked against Uwe Boll's catastrophes.
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Geobaldi
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 3:29:53 PM
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The_R0gue_Ninja
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 6:09:49 PM
And where, God forbid, did he show up in Homecoming?
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Geobaldi
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 6:28:51 PM
Inside the Alternate Hilltop Center, you can find creatures that resemble Pyramid Head but without the pyramid helmet (they are part of the scenery and cannot be fought), hanging by one arm and holding a doll with the other hand. Their heads are completely black, and their vest is exactly the same as the SH2 Pyramid Head.
Many times throughout the game Valtiel can be seen. Since the appearance of Pyramid Head is modeled after Valtiel in Silent Hill lore, the appearance is very similar to him except Valtiel's face is exposed and twitching violently.
Pyramid Head can also be seen in one of the pictures in the church.
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Pyramid Head appears to materialize the guilt of Alex Shepherd's father, Adam Shepherd, for choosing to murder his son. "The Boogeyman", as he is referred to in the game, appears only twice to Alex; once in the Grand Hotel in Silent Hill and again much later in a church where he, like the monsters that represent the other sacrificed children, executes Adam by splitting him in half. He also makes appearances in the game's introductory level, where he first executes the doctor who wheels Alex into the Operation Theater and is then heard in the darkness dragging his knife. Although the game begins (the ending of the first level) with the Great Knife plunging toward Alex before he wakes up, the Boogeyman does not seem to show hostility toward him for the rest of the game. Yet his last, yet surprising, appearance is at the end, or one of the endings, of the game where Alex wakes up in a wheelchair as two Pyramid Heads appear, each with part of a helmet which they use to turn Alex into one of them.
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The_R0gue_Ninja
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 @ 10:18:26 AM
I forgot that Pyramid Head showed up in Homecoming. That game sucked so much, in my opinion, that I want to forget it ever was associated with the Silent Hill series.
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BTNwarrior
Sunday, November 15, 2009 @ 10:32:10 PM
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therabbitkinge
Sunday, November 15, 2009 @ 10:41:17 PM
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Jawknee
Sunday, November 15, 2009 @ 10:55:13 PM
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ExhumeART
Sunday, November 15, 2009 @ 11:04:19 PM
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___________
Sunday, November 15, 2009 @ 11:14:21 PM
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silent hill and resident evil were the cream of the crop back on the ps1, now both have turned to utter sh*t.
the horror genre needs to go back to what it was, im getting sick of this torture porn crap!
every horror movie has to be torture porn these days, hostel, the hills have eyes, SAW.
every horror movie contains a killer and some victims its getting old.
well i guess thats not always a bad thing, the zodiac is still one of the best movies i have ever seen i really enjoyed that.
ive always really enjoyed the thriller genre like that movie based on a Stephen king book.
thrillers seem to be the one genre i can go in and be 100% sure ill enjoy it, now someone needs to turn that into a game.
maybe alan wake can be that game, but to be frank im sick of waiting for that.
6 years plus, that thing better blow my socks off.
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WorldEndsWithMe
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 12:08:26 AM
uh, which one? There's about a million.
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___________
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 6:42:44 AM
than in the end he finds out he is that guy.
its not IT the movie sucked, though the book is the best thing ive ever read.
cabin fever maybe?
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kevinater321
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 8:26:29 AM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 1:23:05 PM
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Snaaaake
Sunday, November 15, 2009 @ 11:37:40 PM
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Japanese, Korean and Thai horror are the best though Thai's horror mostly are about an object or curse which is getting old.
But I do however love American thriller, especially SAW.
But for SH2 movie I'm definitely looking forward to it.
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Poor_boy
Sunday, November 15, 2009 @ 11:57:56 PM
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Doosharm
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 1:04:22 AM
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Poor_boy
Sunday, November 15, 2009 @ 11:47:36 PM
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DGo8
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 4:04:36 AM
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main_event05
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 @ 9:43:18 PM
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Ultimadream
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 6:12:16 AM
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My Dream SH2 Film:
After the events of the first one, they get Sean Bean back to play the male lead as the protagonist looking for his wife. If they can relate it to SH2 just in that way i'll be so happy.
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Geobaldi
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 8:00:05 AM
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gumbi
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 8:25:55 AM
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Lotusflow3r
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 9:16:18 AM
Even as a stand alone horror movie, it was embarrassingly bad.
Read my post below.
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gumbi
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 1:07:38 PM
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Lotusflow3r
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 @ 11:08:04 AM
You probably play it for scares and ask questions like "why are they not screaming or reacting to the monsters?".
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DGo8
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 8:31:48 AM
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Lotusflow3r
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 9:05:34 AM
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No, the true SH peeps are NOT looking forward to this. The 1st movie and certainly this is an absolute shameful piece of work.
I can't believe how people here think the 1st was solid and true to the Hill....are you mental? It turned it into an absolute embarrassment, it turned it into Resi Evil.
SH is an intelligent work of artistic genius, the movie was a money whore, a dumbed down traditional shoddy, embarrassing American horror.
And to the idiots that think the games have gone to shite...does no one read what i say? The original team stopped working on SH in 2004! They intended to stop at SH 3 but Konami had bullied them to do more. SH 4 was originally going to be a new IP by team Silent called The Room but, Konami were being motivated by money and made them make it a new Silent Hill....not long after, team Silent disbanded. SILENT HILL IS NO MORE!
***Please do not support any "Silent Hill" that comes out, game or otherwise. It is hurtfull to watch something that was so intelligent, artistic and extremely well thought out become dumbed down for money by western fools who know nothing but, gore and action, i can't imagine how the original team must feel.***
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Lotusflow3r
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 11:07:47 AM
Go back to reading Harry Potter And The Forrest Of Embarrassment
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bearbobby
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 4:06:27 PM
Movie studios make movies to bring in money, the movie gets made in a way that conveys most of the theme while also being appealing to those who haven't played the game or are not gamers in any way. Yes, most likely something will be lost in translation, and someone will take issue with it. I understand it's something you hold close to your heart, but that's life.
For the record, you never actually put forward any points about why the movie was sh*t. You simply called anyone who doesn't agree with you "mental," which is no argument either.
It's okay if you feel the movie was a disappointment, but tone down the anger a bit and people will be more willing to listen to/read what you have to say.
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Lotusflow3r
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 @ 7:47:48 AM
i could argue points all day, especially some in your post, but i am on PS3 with no keyboard and cba, ive said my bit.
The film was an embarrassment.
If this was face to face group discussion, i would talk your ears off with an infinite amount of points as to what should be done, what shouldn't be done and the downfall of each industry due to the lack of artistic vision and too much money thought.
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eLLeJuss
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 10:55:44 AM
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DGo8
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 12:10:51 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 1:23:42 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
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