Guillermo Del Toro Confirms Cancellation Of Silent Hills

[Conrad Zimmerman]

Guillermo Del Toro Confirms Cancellation Of Silent Hills

"It breaks my greasy heart," says director.

Silent Hills is, "not going to happen." That's according to filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who made the comment at an event honoring him during this weekend's San Francisco Film Fest. Del Toro had been co-directing the title, which would have been the ninth installment in the Silent Hill franchise, with Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima.

Rumors about the fate of the project began to circulate when Konami removed references to Kojima and his studio, Kojima Productions, from the official websites for Metal Gear Solid and changed the name of subsidiary studio "Kojima Productions Los Angeles" to "Konami Los Angeles Studio" as part of a reorganization at the publisher. would cease on April 29 [http://www.gamespot.com/articles/kojima-expected-to-leave-konami-after-mgs5-inside-/1100-6426024/], leading to further doubt about its status.

This wouldn't be the first time a video game project involving the director has gone up in smoke. He also collaborated with Volition on Insane, an unreleased survival horror title dropped by THQ in 2012, two years after first announcing it. Though del Toro expressed confidence [http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/20/guillermo-del-toro-on-gaming-and-the-halo-movie] that another developer would pick up where Volition left off, nothing has been heard of it since.

Sources: IGN [https://twitter.com/tvsmatthackney/status/592177537427447808]

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[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Hell Mr. Del Toro, renegotiate the contract and make the world's first good Silent Hill movie. If you love the plot/settings and characters so much, why don't you do something with them!

 

[Bat Vader]

That's unfortunate. I had a feeling a horror game like this that had great potential would be canceled.

 

[Michael Tabbut]

And now Konami is dead to me. This was the ONLY game from them I was looking forward to, and they pull this shit. I wouldn't be bothered so much if they hadn't released PT last year, but again they done fucked up. Fuck you Konami, fuck you!

 

[Shiftygiant]

My heart just broke

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Fireworks have all but been pissed on. I can't bear to play that P.t. demo now, as it truly will be just a "tease." This was really a beacon of hope for the near future of psychological horror. Who can I punch to quell this sadness and rage?
Part of me is hoping that kickstarter could inspire further work, or perhaps we should just kick start konami. In the face. With its arse. Nonono...must remain philosophical. To the whiskey!

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

I have no idea what Konami even has anymore besides MGS. In fact, I'm confused as to why more and more companies are determined to cripple themselves by getting rid of IPs and setting themselves up for financial disaster by only making a handful of titles. It's just bizarre

 

[VincentX3]

God fucking dammit.

Seriously, that little "teaser" had more story and complexity behind it than 90% of AAA games.
When it takes the collective internet to figure out the puzzles and story, you know you had a good game.

GG Konami yet again.

 

[Dr.Susse]

Damn ........
this really looked like it had a heap of potential.

 

[Danny Dowling]

I'm not a fan of horror games but as a fan of a successful game industry this deeply saddens me. The efforts put into PT was a sign of a lot of potential for this game to really be a memorable title for Playstation 4 and to see it gone... well... it's very very sad.

 

[Louzerman102]

What makes a company wake up in the morning and go "we need to become irrelevant and penniless?"

 

[Callate]

So, Guillermo Del Toro is the kiss of death for video games?

Crap. This was looking really promising. It kind of makes me wonder what the hell Kojima could have done that was worth Konami bending over backwards to screw up some of its most hopeful new offerings.

 

[Andy Shandy]

Not surprising considering the Kojima/Konami fallout, but still Konami...

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

First it was Mountains of Madness, now this.

Goddammit, why is Del Toro plagued with having such great concepts on the slab for him but never being able to realise them? Pacific Rim was fucking awesome and it sold gangbusters worldwide, what the hell else do these companies need as proof?!

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Ya know, Konami wouldn't know a good thing if it slapped them with a dead fish.

Kojima being involved with the project along with Del Toro atually made me excited for a Silent Hill game.

I guess we're not allowed to have nice things.

 

[Therumancer]

I have to admit I'm unhappy, I was REALLY looking forward to this game.

That said I'm not 100% sure that problems with Kojima are responsible. There was supposed to be a big renaissance of Survival Horror given the success of various indie games, and the projections that "Evil Within" was going to be a big deal. Survival Horror indie games seem to have been suffering despite some initial success, especially as everyone plays "follow the leader" and they seem to be getting lamer and lamer. Also "Evil Within" was according to some things I've heard not the huge success it was expected to be especially given the mixed reactions to the finale and game reveals.

The way it seems to me is that "P.T." was cool but they were also careful to say it might not have any real bearing on the game. Despite mentioning the director and who they were digitizing for the lead, there was very little in the way of concrete information or any news on how development was going on the game itself, which was surprising given that I think the game was supposed to be out come this October. I suspect Konami decided to cut it's potential losses and cancel the project for that reason. This is all just speculation however, looking at what I've heard, and where the industry seems to be going.

That said I would like to see Mr. Del Toro do a good horror game, and I do hope someone does manage to do another "Silent Hill" game and do the franchise justice in the process.

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

I can put this down next to Obsidian's Aliens RPG on the list of games that were unfortunately cancelled. It is a shame but I suppose it's better than them going ahead anyway and making a really crappy game. Still really sucks for the developers who probably put loads of work into making this good and now it'll never see the light of day.

 

[rbstewart7263]

According to Ign del toro when saying "its not gonna happen" was reffering to a collaboration between him and kojima and that you will have to talk to konami for confirmation of cancellation.

Not that I would dare hold out hope at this point.