Sean Bean on Silent Hill

 

LOTR star says film is bizarre and spooky.

July 13, 2005 - Filming is well underway on the movie adaptation of Konami's atmospheric Silent Hill video game. With Frenchman Christophe Gans, director of Brotherhood of the Wolf at the helm, the film promises to be genuinely spooky – a quality missing from other recent game adaptations, like the Resident Evil series.
Actor Sean Bean, whose skills have contributed to such films as The Fellowship of the Ring and Patriot Games, complimented Gans and his work on the movie so far in an interview with Sci Fi Wire. "I think it will be really good. Christophe Gans is the director. He's given [Silent Hill] a really quirky, bizarre feel, very spooky: a very European kind of genre film."
While the exact plot of the film has been kept under wraps, frequent readers may remember our previous report on the story. It involves a couple with a child who is dying of a terminal illness. The mother, named Rose, attempts to take the child to see a faith healer, but instead the two end up in an alternate reality – a demon-haunted ghost town called Silent Hill. Rose and her daughter both become pawns in supernatural power play, forced to make some difficult choices in order to survive.
Bean adds to this synopsis, saying that his daughter in the film is obsessed with a place called Silent Hill even before they encounter it. "She keeps mentioning 'Silent Hill, Silent Hill.' She's always trying to get there. She tries to get out of the house, wakes up in the middle of the night. My wife decides it might be a good idea to take her there. We're trying to confront her fears. She gets involved with a very murky, dangerous world, very creepy, which is all in different time levels as well. I'm in the real world, and I'm trying to find passages on different planes. It's quite interesting. I can hear her, but I can't see her. The way it's shot is in constant fog. There's always this fog cobwebbed around the Silent Hill world. The real world's just normal."
For those interested in taking a look at the Silent Hill sets, Joystiq.com has posted a link to an online Silent Hill photo gallery.

 
 
Silent Hill is expected in theaters sometime in 2006. Sean Bean can next be seen in The Island.

 

fonte: filmforce