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Title: Return to Silent Hill is coming to theaters next January

Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:34:09 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/return...

The third Silent Hill movie is still heading to theaters. According to
Deadline, Return to Silent Hill will premiere on January 23, 2026. The film
is directed by Christophe Gans, who also helmed the original 2006 adaptation.

Return to Silent Hill is based on the 2001 game Silent Hill 2. (Bloober
Team's 2024 remake was one of our favorite games of the year.) The movie
adaptation stars Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson. Akira Yamaoka, the
game franchise's original composer, handles the score.

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Like the game it's based on, the film's protagonist is James Sunderland
(Irvine). After a crushing breakup with Mary (Anderson), James lives up to
the billing and… returns to Silent Hill. What he finds is a town
transformed by a mysterious evil. As James searches for Mary, he faces
terrifying creatures and unravels the truth. Psychological horror commences.

In 2022, Gans told IGN that it's "totally independent" from the last two
films. "Silent Hill is a bit like Twilight Zone, the Fourth Dimension, a
place where anything and everything can happen," he said. In an interview
with Le Point, Gans added that he wrote the screenplay during pandemic
lockdowns. "I shot it in early 2023," he said (translated from French). "The
film was supposed to be finalized in April 2024, but because of the executive
producers, it dragged on, and I finished it last January." (Shots fired.)

The movie doesn't yet have a full theatrical trailer. But you can check out
its 2022 teaser trailer below.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/return...
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