Corona | Coming Attractions

News is breaking from the Toronto International Film Festival that screenwriter Roger Avary and producer Samuel Hadida have signed contracts to make a sequel to Silent Hill.

Avary wrote the script for the 2006 movie while Hadida produced under his Davis Films banner. No storyline has been revealed yet but the first film chose to go with an original premise and use characters and situations outside of what appeared in the first Konami video game.

Silent Hill is one of the video game publisher's star properties. Falling under the genre classification of survival horror, each game is about a new person entering the mist-enshrouded small town of Silent Hill in search of answers to the whereabouts of their loved ones. When they start to explore the deserted buildings and streets of the town they encounter twisted human-looking creatures and outright horrific shapes. One being which has the unusual name of Pyramid Head due to the strange mask he wears, brandishes an abnormally long sword and is rumored to be some kind of fallen dark god.

The first Silent Hill movie starred Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean and Laurie Holden. Directed by Christophe Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf), it grossed $47 million dollars domestically.