With filming because of get underway very quickly for Christophe Gans‘ Return to Silent Hill, you’re in all probability questioning simply what precisely the small print are for the movie, together with the story and solid. Fortunately, German web site Filmportal has offered a number of particulars, together with some preliminary casting and some adjustments from the sport’s story.
In keeping with the positioning (translated, after all), Return to Silent Hill can be a German-British-Serbian co-production between Munich-based Maze Footage with Metropolitan and Davis Movies from Paris, and The Electrical Shadow Firm and Lotus Wallace from London. Half of the filming will happen in Germany, with Munich, Penzing, Nuremberg, Rossberg, and Lake Ammer being the areas of selection.
Alongside a screenplay from Gans, the movie can be photographed by Benoit Debie, with Felicity Abbott dealing with manufacturing design and Sébastian Prangère serving as editor.
The synopsis goes like this: “Pushed by the shadows of his previous, James Sunderland returns to Silent Hill to seek out his misplaced love, Mary Crane (notice the identify change from the sport). However the darkish, miserable small city is not the place from his reminiscences. James meets characters who appear all too acquainted and who attempt to divert him from his seek for Mary. The longer he searches for Mary, the extra he begins to marvel if that is nonetheless actuality – or if he has fallen into the darkish underworld of Jacob Crane.”
Clearly, the story has been modified up from Silent Hill 2 (Mary’s identify, the brand new Jacob Crane character). Understand that that is once more all translated, so there’s a potential for mistranslation.
As for casting, the one identify talked about is British actor Jeremy Irvine, whose horror credit embrace 2015’s The Lady in Black: Angel of Demise, in addition to starring in Steven Spielberg’s Warfare Horse. Filmportal’s itemizing appears to indicate that Irvine is starring as James Sunderland, although once more, nothing has been confirmed as of but.
