Getting lost in Silent Hill should be terrifying. Watching another filmmaker try to bring it to the screen has become its own kind of ordeal. The games have supplied years of unforgettable imagery, but three live-action movies have struggled to make the fog feel as frightening as it does when you’re the one holding the controller. That has not stopped Hollywood from trying. Return to Silent Hill released earlier this year with director Christophe Gans back behind the camera and Silent Hill 2 as its inspiration. Now, even with that movie still fresh in fans’ minds, another attempt is beginning to take shape.

Resident Evil producer Roy Lee is involved in a new Silent Hill screen project. A new report from the Wall Street Journal lists the franchise among Lee’s upcoming video game adaptations, following his work on Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil and A Minecraft Movie. The details stop there: the project’s format, creative team, story, and release date have not been announced.

Lee’s involvement comes at an especially good moment for horror games on screen. Cregger’s Resident Evil opened to $60 million domestically and $108.3 million worldwide, giving the franchise a major new box office success. Lee also has a long history in horror, with producing credits that include The Ring, The Grudge, and It.

‘Silent Hill’ Has Plenty of Material for a New Adaptation

The first Silent Hill movie, released in 2006, drew on the original game’s story of a parent searching for a missing child in a town that keeps slipping into something much worse. Silent Hill: Revelation followed in 2012, while this year’s Return to Silent Hill turned to James Sunderland’s journey from Silent Hill 2. That history leaves a new creative team with a choice: revisit one of the games or build an original story around the series’ unsettling world. There is also more to Silent Hill than its most recognizable monsters. The games, including the next release Silent Hill: Townfall, make players search unfamiliar spaces, solve puzzles, and wonder whether what they are seeing can be trusted. Translating that experience into a movie or series is a difficult task, especially when the audience can leave the room whenever it wants. Resident Evil found recent success with an original protagonist navigating a familiar game world, but Lee has given no indication that he intends to use the same approach here.

For now, Lee is the only name linked to this new take, and it remains unclear whether it will be a movie or a television series. Those unanswered questions matter more than the prospect of another visit to the town: a director, writer, and format will show what kind of fresh start is actually in the works. Until then, Silent Hill fans can at least take comfort in knowing the fog is drawing someone back in.

via Collider