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Superweapon VII
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What stories/intellectual properties (other than Star Wars) would you like to retell/rewrite?
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15-Jan-2023, 7:17 AM

I think it might be interesting to tackle Silent Hill. I haven’t actually played any of the games – I’m a mediocre gamer who doesn’t have money to make gaming much of a hobby, anyway – but I watched the first movie. While I felt the movie’s script was bad, I liked the visuals. That was inspiration enough for me to check out playthroughs of the first game. Since then I’ve become a fan of the series and its lore, with especial fondness for the Team Silent entries.

I quite liked the horror anthology series Channel Zero, and I think Silent Hill would work best as a series in a similar vein, with no more than six episodes devoted to adapting a single game. There’d be a minimum of five seasons.

  • Season 1: Silent Hill & Silent Hill 3
  • Season 2: Silent Hill 2
  • Season 3: Silent Hill 4: The Room
  • Season 4: Silent Hill: Homecoming
  • Season 5: Silent Hill: Downpour

SH3 parallels the original so strongly that I feel it would work best to splice their narratives together ala Stephen King’s It, combining certain characters to avoid redundancy. Homecoming would be considerably reworked, not least to remove Pyramid Head and the Bubble Head Nurses.

The series could continue past those first five seasons, depending on how well future games like Silent Hill f and Townfall turn out (I have no faith in Ascension). And there’re always the cancelled games like Cold Heart and Silent Hills to take inspiration from. Hell, it might even be a gas to try whittling a coherent, lore-friendly story out of those terrible Scott Ciencin comics.