Davis Films has optioned "Silent Hill", the best-selling video game series from Konami, for big-screen production. Directed by Helmer Christophe Gans ("Brotherhood of the Wolf"), the movie will be a collaboration between Davis Films and gamemaker Konami.

Konami's three mature-rated "Silent Hill" video games have combined sold over 4 million copies. "Silent" will be the third game-to-movie project for Konami, following "Resident Evil" and the upcoming "Resident Evil: Apocalypse".

The three "Silent Hill" games are known for their densely foggy and darkly evil landscapes. In the first game, the player becomes Harry Mason, an anxious father searching for his daughter who vanished just outside a desolate town. In "Silent Hill 2", the protagonist is James Sunderland - a man who is thrust into an odyssey of terror after receiving a letter from his long-dead wife. The third game puts the player in the role of teenage Heather as she explores the grim evil of the "Hill".

Which storyline - or storylines - the movie will follow is not yet known, but rest assured that Konami will have a hand in the script, the design of the characters, and aid in the film's soundtrack.

Source: Hollywood Reporter [1]