Cast for Silent Hill movie

[satanisgreat]

Here:

Silent Hill Movie Casting
Boromir joins game-to-film adaptation.

April 27, 2005 - Lord of the Rings thesp Sean Bean has joined the cast of the forthcoming game-to-film adaptation of Silent Hill, according to today's Hollywood Reporter. The trade scoops that Bean will be the male lead in the movie version of the hit Konami game. He'll play the husband of the female lead (Radha Mitchell) in the story of a mother and daughter looking into the secrets of an abandoned town. The child will be played by Jodelle Ferland (Tideland).
Variety adds that Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates and Tanya Allen have also joined the cast in unspecified roles.

Brotherhood of the Wolf helmer Christophe Gans is directing the flick from a script by Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Rules of Attraction). Gans and Nicolas Boukhrief contributed to the story.

Bean recently starred in National Treasure and Troy. He'll next star in Michael Bay's sci-fi flick The Island which hits theaters in July. He's also set for the thriller Flightplan, opposite Jodie Foster.

Silent Hill started shooting in Toronto this week. TriStar Pictures will distribute the film. A 2006 release is planned.

Sounds interesting to me. Usually game to movie adaptations are crap, but Silent Hill is much more sophisicated in it's presentation than other games, particularly Resident Evil. The cast, director, and writer alone has me interested.

[POOPERSCOOPER]

The game could make a cool movie but whats the point? The name silent hill is cool but there not much else to warrant a game based movie. They could have made their own movie with the same type of setting.

Despite my dislike towards game->movies, this one has a pretty good cast of people working with it. I dont know who the actors are lol

[St. Toxic]

Hey, I kind of liked Brotherhood of the Wolf.
Maybe the guy can get some clean filming down afterall, who knows?

[Fez]

Poop's right, why not make an orignial film with a similar theme, if you like the idea? Otherwise you end up with unwanted baggage from the game. It just stinks of a cheap cash-in when they do this.

[Redeye]

Heh, I thought from the title of the thread it was meant "who would
you cast",etc.

I wouldn't worry at all about the game- just rip the title for the
recognition and then do whatever the hell I wanted.
So, who would YOU cast?

[satanisgreat]

If someone just made a game similar to Silent Hill and called it something else, it'd just be a ripoff. I'm glad they're making a full movie adapation of the games.

Silent Hill has some constants going for it. The town itself, lots of fog, a main character who's lost and alone, Lovecraftian feel, etc. If they do it right and stick to these, it should turn out at least decent.

One thing that worries me is that the games are very much about one character being isolated in the town, and there seems to be two "leads", Bean and his movie wife. Usually the wife is dead or missing, and I hope that's the case for the movie.

[Nicolai]

They should use the soundtrack from the first game.

[Koki]

BOROMIRRR!!!