Producer says Silent Hill 2 to a "Wider Audience"

Producer says Silent Hill 2 to a "Wider Audience"

The story will take place "years later" and is geared toward a "much older...movie-going public."

By hgmE - Nov 20, 2009 06:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Video Games
Source: Shocktillyoudrop.com

While chatting with shocktillyoudrop.com the producer of Silent Hill 2 had this to say:

"I think we need to make it a little more accessible to the movie-going public," he goes on to say, "Silent Hill is not a blockbuster game like Resident Evil or the other games out there. It's a connoisseurs' game. It has its own, rabid fan base. They're not cheap, these things. You have to appeal not only to the gamers, you have to appeal to a wider audience. So we have to get some story in there that helps explain a bit more. I think that's all happening. Of course, [the story] is going to happen years later and the main character - without giving too much away - is much older and representative to the movie-going public which is in that age group."

hgmE: Rough speculation leads me to this conclusion: Silent Hill 2 is going to be PG-13

Don't you find that odd for a series of M-rated games?

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Betty
Betty - 11/20/2009, 8:22 AM
More accessible as in make it not suck?
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 11/20/2009, 9:04 AM
SILENT HILL 2 PG-13 [frick] OFF!!???

Its a [frick]ing HORROR, in the words of GRIF...

FAIL!


: D
hgmE
hgmE - 11/20/2009, 9:19 AM
@movietheaterlad - I'm not saying "OMG NO GUTS/TITS??????? EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!'
actually, silent hill is a staggeringly horrific place, and I feel in order to properly convey that you're going to have to show some pretty disturbing things, things that probably aren't going to fly with a low rating. Less disturbing atmosphere = less terrifying town. and seeing as how the town is the real enemy in most of the games, you've got a weak villain.

@betty - Silent Hill was actually not bad. I don't know if you played any of the games, but you should. Aside from all the asinine Hollywood cliches we had to endure it was a fairly faithful adaptation. (sort of a SH2 ripoff, but that's fine with me)
AVEN
AVEN - 11/20/2009, 10:19 AM
Silent Hill 2 is going to be PG-13???

Shit, the first movie was the best movie adaptation of a game... and you want to change that...
hgmE
hgmE - 11/20/2009, 1:04 PM
@movietheaterlad - You have a good point. I just hope they don't aim for too wide of an audience, that could bring problems.
supermarioworldE
supermarioworldE - 11/20/2009, 2:28 PM
Hopefully they'll have the same director. Gans really captured the look and feel of the games. Silent hill was one of those few video game movies, that was a good adaptation of the source material, and yet an entertaining piece of work. I'm just suprised that it took so long for them to start thinking about a sequel.
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