In fact, what happens is that… And we know it, it’s in the thing… The franchise (Silent Hill, editor’s note) is going to be relaunched in terms of video games, and therefore the film will become part of a global policy. I believe that on a forum, someone deduced that and he is absolutely right; in other words, the film is indeed part of a whole. I’m not saying that it was Konami who asked us to make a new film, it just so happens that a few months before the start of the pandemic, we are at the beginning of 2020, with Victor Hadida, following the death of Samuel (Hadida, his big brother editor’s note), we went through all the rights that Samuel had acquired and we said to ourselves… We have the Fatal Frame franchise and the Silent Hill license, we have to do something about it.
In addition, the market, the way it is reorganizing today, tends to push us in this direction. Because aside from the Marvel movies, the best-selling movies so far this year, I’m not going to tell anyone, are Uncharted and Sonic 2. Which means video game franchises have a real foundation, because somewhere, and it’s quite easy to understand, they combine two audiences: both the video game audience and the cinema audience. And today, the audience tends to shrink following the shock of the pandemic. So, we say to ourselves that it’s better to have two audiences with you than just one…
We now know that the original director from Antibes took advantage of the various confinements to write the script for his two films. The Silent Hill project is almost finished and Christophe Gans will get down to casting in the coming weeks. What he meant by 2023 is undoubtedly the arrival of the first games (according to leaks and rumors, Konami has commissioned several studios to relaunch the franchise), while the filming of the new film by Christophe Gans will turn probably in 2023… Do not hesitate to consult the interview in its entirety, there are other crisp anecdotes.