Norman Reedus says Silent Hills “needs to happen”

One of the most controversial moments in gaming in 2015 happened when Konami decided to cancel development on Silent Hills, the highly anticipated survival horror game that was being made by Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro. The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus, who was set to star in the title, had some words to share about the game’s unfortunate fate.

While talking to IGN, Norman expressed his confidence in the possibility that one day he, Kojima, and Del Toro could work together again by stating:

“I’m super bummed that that happened back in Japan. But I have faith. I have faith that we, the three of us, can do something else. There were so many ideas and cool future happenings that were thrown around. I just can’t see us not picking this up somewhere.”

Norman then spoke about the reaction from the fanbase to the game’s cancellation:

“The internet buzz about [Silent Hills] happening was so huge. I’ve never seen anything like it; petitions with a hundred thousand people that signed it, petitions to please make it happen, that’s crazy. That’s a crazy fanbase for not just that video game but also those people making that video game, and for me to jump on that truck with them, I was like, ‘Holy balls. It has to happen. You need to do this.'”

Then he spoke about what assets actually existed for the game:

“We did some of that photography with a thousand cameras pointing at you in a million different directions,” he said. “We did some things with them that might be – I don’t know if it’s on the cutting room floor. It might be in someone’s hard drive somewhere. We did some stuff for it, but we never got into the full story stuff. We were about to and that water balloon burst.”

Norman closed by reaffirming his confidence:

“Hopefully they’ll come to some sort of agreement and that happens, or we do something very similar that’s different. I don’t know. I have faith that we’re going to do something though because it just seems like it was one of those things that needs to happen. It’s like destiny, it needs to happen.”

What do you guys think? I’ll definitely be down for whatever game these three could potentially work on someday, especially if it’s a horror game like P.T. and Silent Hills.

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