It’s been nearly ten years now since the Silent Hill franchise was up on the big screen, with the first adaptation in 2006 followed by the lackluster Silent Hill: Revelation in 2012. That damn good, game-faithful first movie was directed by Christophe Gans, who seems to have made the surprise announcement that a new Silent Hill movie is in the works!

Speaking with the French website Allocine, and translated by various sites including Rely on Horror, Gans teased a new Silent Hill movie and a Fatal Frame movie as well!

“I have two horror film projects with [producer] Victor Hadida,” Gans told the site. “I am working on the adaptation of the video game Project Zero (known as Fatal Frame in the United States, editor’s note). The film will take place in Japan. I especially don’t want to uproot the game from its Japanese haunted house setting. And we’re also working on a new Silent Hill.”

He added, “The [Silent Hill] project will always be anchored in this atmosphere of a small American town, ravaged by Puritanism. I think it’s time to make a new one.“

Gans went on to describe his experience with making the 2006 movie as being “beautiful,” and that the studio fully allowed him to make the movie *he* wanted to make.

As for Fatal Frame, a Japanese live-action movie was released back in 2014, and plans of a movie for American audiences go all the way back to 2003. Long time coming!