Silent Hill’s film franchise is getting a reboot. During Konami’s Silent Hill Transmission announcement stream, which revealed a brand new remake of the sport Silent Hill 2, the corporate additionally introduced that it’s bringing the franchise again to theaters with a completely reimagined movie. Return to Silent Hill will probably be helmed by the director of the unique 2006 Silent Hill film.

Return to Silent Hill will observe an identical plot to the unique Silent Hill 2 sport, the place a person makes his option to Silent Hill in the hunt for the misplaced love of his life. Instead, he finds a complete nightmare of monsters and horror, together with the notorious Pyramid Head, one of many collection’ most recognizable and well-known characters.

According to Rui Naito, who launched himself on the stream as Konami’s head of IP and cross-media improvement for Silent Hill, each the brand new sport and the film got here as a part of a pitch from Victor Hadida, one of many producers of the 2006 Silent Hill film. Hadida instructed he and director Christophe Gans ought to return to their collaboration, which made the primary film a box-office hit. The pitch prompted Konami to leap right into a Silent Hill 2 remake to go together with the brand new theatrical film.

This will probably be Gans’ second time working within the Silent Hill universe after helming the franchise’s underrated, nice first movie adaptation. After Gans’ entry, the collection moved on to 2012’s Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, directed by M.J. Bassett (Ash vs. the Evil Dead), which was poorly acquired and introduced the collection to a cinematic cease.

Along with the brand new movie and the remake, Konami’s Silent Hill Transmission livestream additionally introduced new video games referred to as Silent Hill f and Silent Hill: Townfall.