10 Upcoming Video Game Movie Adaptations You NEED To Be Excited For

Critics might’ve derided it but fans at least held some appreciation for 2006’s Silent Hill film. At a 63% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s one of the more warmly received video game motion pictures.

The film does admittedly make plenty of its own mistakes (how are you going to cast the legendary Sean Bean and then give him nothing to do?) but it also got plenty of things right. Silent Hill had the correct aesthetic, tone and plenty of things that are wonderfully lifted from the source material, which is more than can be said for some video game movies.

In recent months the film’s director Christophe Gans has confirmed his re-entry to the franchise in a 2023 picture rumoured to be titled “Return to Silent Hill”. Not only does Gans being back almost certainly promise a more worthy sequel than 2012’s Silent Hill Revelation, a film outright panned and for good reason, but his enthusiasm for the property even 17 years since the first movie is exciting.

In an interview with French news site Allocine, Gans described his plans:

“I’ll enter into something way more psychological and way more psychoanalytic in order to try to make people understand that Silent Hill isn’t only this strange labyrinth that changes its form but also the projection of tortured and tormented souls and sometimes of extremely paradoxical feelings that can be between mad love and violence.”