How close is the movie to the Silent Hill game series?
Director Christophe Gans, an avid fan of the game series, was interested in remaining faithful to both the tone and mythology of the games, but has acknowledged the difficulty of this task:One guarantee that fans can have, is that it’s much easier to adapt Doom, even if it is a disaster, as we’ve seen a month before, then adapt Silent Hill. If you want to adapt Silent Hill, and you’re not ready to face all of the complexity of the story, it’s just too much. For a lazy director, like the one who directed Doom, simply Silent Hill would be too big of a piece to swallow. I dreamed of adapting this game when I first started playing Silent Hill six years ago. I prepared myself for six years to do this job, knowing that every fan in the world would wait for me with an axe. I will be sniped when I go to buy my games at my favorite store if I do a bad job. And I understand that, I’m a fan of the game myself…I admire the work of Akira and his friends, and I feel very much like someone who join
