We got the heads up on some cool outdoor sets for the Silent Hill movie the other day, and as the news arrives of the lead casting it’s an apt time to announce both. According to Coming Soon:
Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland, Melinda and Melinda) will topline the video game adaptation Silent Hill for TriStar Pictures.
Principal photography is due to begin Monday in Toronto on the suspense horror feature, directed by Christophe Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf), and will run through July 22. The movie is budgeted at $45 million-$50 million, with additional casting to be finalized.
Well the work on the sets has already begun, and an intrepid reader has filmed some of the sets for us. Hopefully we might see more in the coming weeks, but for now here’s a link to Harry Clause’s set film (39.4Mb\5m48s). There’s nothing too much to see yet, apart from signs and rundown buildings, although that archway is intruiging. Unfortunately it’s only there for six days, although Harry may be kind enough to repost after that. Hopefully there will be more to come.
What about the casting though? Visually she looks the part. This combined with the set pics and the writing of Roger Avary looks like we could get a fairly close adaptation.
