Return to Silent Hill Director Reveals He Was Required to Keep the Length Under 2 Hours, and Hopes Fans Can Watch a Longer Director's Cut 'Someday'

Return to Silent Hill whitethorn person lone released successful theaters past week, but manager Christophe Gans has already confirmed that a longer Director’s Cut exists.

According to a instrumentality who attended a premiere and Q&A with the filmmaker past week and shared immoderate highlights connected Reddit, Gans described the alternate mentation "as longer and allowing [the story] much country to breathe." This includes the decease country of a salient quality from the crippled that lone concisely appeared successful the movie.

"Gans said helium struggled to find the close spot for it successful the edit," the instrumentality wrote. "It is unclear whether [the scene] would look successful the Director’s Cut, though helium expressed a tendency for audiences to spot it someday." He besides told attendees that helium had been instructed by the producers to support the movie nether 2 hours long. There is nary indication, however, that this Return to Silent Hill Director's Cut volition ever beryllium released.

Return to Silent Hill debuted to a dreadful reception past week, with conscionable $3.2 cardinal coming successful from North American theaters. Despite Konami resurrecting its fearfulness franchise with 2 well-received games, Silent Hill 2 Remake and Silent Hill f (as good arsenic the divisive Silent Hill: Ascension and upcoming Silent Hill Townfall), the 3rd Silent Hill movie had the lowest home container bureau opening of each 3 Silent Hill films; 2006's Silent Hill generated $20.2 million, and the painfully mediocre follow-up Silent Hill: Revelation conscionable $8 cardinal — which is inactive much than doubly Return to Silent Hill's home opening.

IGN's Return to Silent Hill reappraisal returned a 5/10. We said: "Return to Silent Hill isn’t wholly without merit. It’s surely a amended follow-up to Cristophe Gans’ archetypal 2006 movie than 2012’s Silent Hill: Revelation, 1 that finds immoderate occurrence drafting connected the creepy imagery and dependable plan of the games. But it’s yet an adaptation that fails to amended upon the root worldly oregon bash thing peculiarly caller and interesting. Those craving a genuinely large intelligence fearfulness acquisition are amended disconnected booting up a mentation of Silent Hill 2."

Gans precocious said that contempt receiving decease threats implicit adapting the fearfulness bid for the large screen, helium would beryllium unfastened to bringing different instalment to life, insisting: "I volition accommodate different section due to the fact that determination are immoderate that are highly good, thing precise antithetic from the archetypal film, and present Return to Silent Hill. I similar this world, and I tin spot that plentifulness of radical are reasoning I’m doing a beauteous bully job."

The question is, volition helium get the accidental to marque different Silent Hill movie? Perhaps moving successful Gans' favour is the information Return to Silent Hill carries a humble accumulation fund of $23 million.

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Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.