20 Movie Sequels That Took WAY Too Long

The modest success of 2006's adaptation of horror video game Silent Hill suggested a wider franchise was on the horizon, and though writer-director Christophe Gans was swiftly re-hired to direct a follow-up based on the beloved Silent Hill 2, development fizzled in the years that followed.

Sony instead released a different sequel without Gans' involvement six years later, Silent Hill: Revelation, which failed to connect with critics or audiences.

This, combined with the declining cred of the Silent Hill brand throughout the 2010s seemingly killed much commercial interest in a third film, though by 2020 Gans reaffirmed that he was once again attempting to adapt Silent Hill 2.

The film, Return to Silent Hill, was finally released this past January, almost a full 20 years after Gans' original hit cinemas, to an absolute pummelling from critics and fans alike, though it performed just well enough at the box office to recoup its costs.

All the same, Silent Hill is absolutely not an IP that should've laid dormant for so damn long, and had this adaptation been made in the wake of the first film's success, Gans would've likely been given a larger budget.

Instead, he had to settle for a mere $23 million - less than half what the original cost to produce two decades prior, and it sure showed.