{"id":858349,"date":"2026-09-24T00:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858349\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:12:12","slug":"producer-of-zach-creggers-resident-evil-movie-reportedly-working-on-new-silent-hill-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858349\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Movie Reportedly Working on New Silent Hill Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new report from The Wall Street Journal states that Roy Lee, who produced Zach Cregger\u2019s hugely-successful Resident Evil movie, is now working on a Silent Hill film.<\/p>\n

Roy Lee is a Hollywood legend. The producer has had a hand in some of the most successful movies of the last three decades and has a speciality for adapting pre-existing IP, specifically where horror is concerned.<\/p>\n

He began his career with horror hits like The Grudge and The Ring, and went on to produce Zach Cregger\u2019s Barbarian and Weapons 20 years later. Most recently, he helped bring Cregger\u2019s Resident Evil<\/a> to life, which has become the single most-successful film adaptation<\/a> of Capcom\u2019s video game series ever and the highest-rated video game movie<\/a> of all time.<\/p>\n

Resident Evil (2026) Images\"\"<\/p>\n

Now, it seems that he\u2019s working on yet another iconic survival horror franchise: Silent Hill.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/a> published a feature about Roy Lee on September 20, where the outlet shed some light on the producer\u2019s upcoming video game-related projects.<\/p>\n

According to the article, Lee has a staggering 20 or so movies and television adaptations for video games that are in development or production right now. These include Prime Video\u2019s God of War series<\/a>, Michael B. Jordan\u2019s Battlefield movie<\/a>, and, most curiously, \u201cJapanese horror classic Silent Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n

The existence of a new Silent Hill movie has not been publicly confirmed at the time of writing this article; however, Konami has been extremely bullish on the franchise as of late, releasing two Silent Hill games in as many years, both of which have been well-received.<\/p>\n

Silent Hill producer Motoi Okamoto also revealed that Konami hopes to release a new game in the series every year<\/a> as it works to reinvigorate its IPs across the board, including titles like Castlevania. With this in mind, the fact that another Silent Hill movie is getting made so soon after the release of Return to Silent Hill isn\u2019t too surprising\u2026 especially given the success of Cregger\u2019s Resident Evil.<\/p>\n

Return to Silent Hill<\/a>, however, was a flop. It\u2019s safe to say that hardcore fans of the franchise hated it, and critics\u2019 opinions weren\u2019t much better. We at IGN scored the movie a five out of 10<\/a>, saying in our review that it \u201cisn\u2019t the worst entry in this video game movie series, but it fails to accomplish anything that the source material doesn\u2019t do better.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, fans can remain cautiously optimistic for a better take on Silent Hill now that Lee is reportedly bringing his expertise to the project… though Resident Evil fans have been somewhat divided as to how Cregger handled the source material in his latest movie, particularly its ending<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Virginia<\/p>\n

Virginia Glaze<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

News Editor<\/p>\n

Virginia (she\/her) is IGN\u2019s News Editor. With ten years of experience reporting on games and entertainment, she\u2019s got a storied background in the fighting game community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her on Twitter at @TheeMissGlaze<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new report from The Wall Street Journal states that Roy Lee, who produced Zach Cregger\u2019s hugely-successful Resident…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-858349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}