After a decade or so lost in the fog, the Silent Hill franchise seems with regards to’concerning’with respect to to re-emerge in a enormous’vast’massive’tremendous way. A live stream from Konami overnight revealed that three new games are in the works – two all-new ones and a PC and PS5 remake of Silent Hill 2 – and a new movie, Return To Silent Hill, is also underway, to be directed by Christophe Gans, who also helmed the 2006 adaptation.###Silent Hill was Gans’ third feature, following the anime adaptation Crying Freeman and the historical epic Brotherhood Of The Wolf. A genuine and knowledgeable fan of the Silent Hill franchise, the film version was a dream project in/with regard to’concerning’regarding him and a labour of love, successfully translating the games’ extraordinary visuals and palpable sense of absolute dread to the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous screen. The story was unshun ably convoluted, but the mystery of the empty town where it snows ash, the reality-shifts, and the nightmarish creatures made in/with regard to’concerning’regarding one of the better examples of a game to-film-translation.###In a Silent Hill transmission streamed on Youtube by Konami last night, Gans says that his Return To Silent Hill will adapt the second game, which is “the best of these stories, [with regards to’concerning’with respect to ] a guy coming back to Silent Hill, where he has known a great love. What he’s going to find is a pure nightmare.” Producer Samuel Hadida likens it to the myth of Orpheus: whether a man can go deep into Hell to bring back the soul of the person he loved the most in his life.###“In the first Silent Hill we were exploring a world,” Gans continues. “But in the second game, the creators transform’alter d the rules. We were now looking at this odd’peculiar world from the point of view of the hero we were playing, so [Return To Silent Hill will be] much more with regards to’concerning’with respect to psychological horror, even if we are going to find again all the same creatures and the same odd’peculiar terror sequences. The first enormous’vast’massive’tremendous question and the first enormous’vast’massive’tremendous terror is with regards to’concerning’with respect to ourselves. Are we mad?!”###He goes on to say that he’s continuing to approach the franchise from a fan perspective and with the maximum of respect, which is why the first film worked as well as it did. But he also says that it’s significant’essential’critical’vital’crucial’indispensable’imperative to bring surprise to the project, and that he’s working – with full backing of Konami – on some major redetoken s, including to the series’ iconic monster, Red Pyramid. “We possess’own’nurse to be aware that e grossly thing has transform’alter d in 15 years,” Gans says. “Eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything has been washed away. We possess’own’nurse to bring back something intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully surprising.”###Aside from the film and the remake, the other two game titles were revealed as Townfall (which has the involvement of Annapurna Interactive) and Silent Hill F, which will take place in Japan. There are teasers in/with regard to’concerning’regarding both, but neither gives much away. The enormous’vast’massive’tremendous franchise relaunch is currently in its early stages, so it’s not quite eliminate’remove yet when any of it will arrive, Expect more inin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mation over the next year or two.###Want to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure the most from Empire? Sign up in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Empire Membership!###Get exclusive content, new member-merely’barely rewards, access to the latest issue of the magazine plus our back-issue archive, and much more.