Hollywood producer Roy Lee is engaged on a brand new Silent Hill, in keeping with a brand new report.
Lee, who’s dubbed “the person behind the manufacturers” in a brand new Wall Avenue Journal report, has seen continued success producing greater than 100 films, a lot of which have been primarily based on licensed IPs.
Starting his profession as an govt producer on the US remakes of such Asian horror films as The Ring, The Grudge, Darkish Water and The Eye, Lee has gone on to provide a lot of different profitable movies primarily based on licensed IPs or current movies.
These have included the likes of The Lego Film (and its sequels and spin-offs), Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Physician Sleep, Godzilla vs Kong, A Minecraft Film and each trendy It films (and its TV spin-off Welcome to Derry).
Extra lately, Lee has been working with director Zach Cregger, and produced not solely his critically acclaimed horror movies Barbarian and Weapons, but in addition the lately launched Resident Evil film, which has been an enormous crucial success.
Lee additionally has a lot of different online game associated tasks within the works, together with the upcoming God of Battle TV sequence, a Dragon’s Lair film, the Horizon Zero Daybreak TV sequence and A Minecraft Film: Squared.
The brand new Wall Avenue Journal report supplies a profile of Lee, masking his profession up to now and seeking to the longer term.
One paragraph within the article notes: “Lee has round 20 films and tv exhibits primarily based on video games in growth or manufacturing, together with the fantasy epic God of Battle, motion franchise Battlefield, and Japanese horror traditional Silent Hill.”
Thus far, a brand new Silent Hill movie has but to be confirmed. The final movie, Return to Silent Hill, was launched in January 2026 and had no involvement from Lee. It was a crucial flop with a Rotten Tomatoes critic rating of 18% and viewers rating of 28%.
If the report is correct, then, it seems that one other try at a Silent Hill film is within the works, this time with Lee taking up a producer function in some capability.
The Lee-produced Resident Evil film, directed by Zach Cregger, is presently high of the US field workplace, and is about to turn out to be the highest-grossing Resident Evil movie when it comes to US field workplace.
The movie is liked by critics and moviegoers alike, with a Rotten Tomatoes critic rating of 95% – making it by far the highest rated online game film ever – and an viewers rating of 91%.
There is no such thing as a indication that Cregger can be concerned with a Silent Hill movie. The director stated he took on the Resident Evil film as a result of he was a fan of the sequence, however has by no means declared an analogous love for the Silent Hill video games.
Fan backlash to Cregger’s involvement earlier than the movie’s launch additionally led to him saying he felt like he was on “an apology tour” whereas selling the film, making it unlikely that he would need to undergo this once more with one other online game IP.
