Guillermo del Toro has shared a major revelation of the cancelled Silent Hill project with Kojima. And it is heartbreaking for most fans.
JUNJI ITO, undisputed master of horror in Japan (along with Hino and Tsubaki) and our collaborator in SILENT HILL (S) pic.twitter.com/D9ypKBhVk5
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 27, 2015
He tweeted a series of images saying Junji Ito, the famous Japanese horror mangaka was the artist of the project. To those who are not familiar with Ito-san’s work, he is famous for the warped horror series Uzumaki, a story about a rural town with a morbid obsession with spirals became a live action movie. Or Gyo, where Okinawa was invaded by mutant killer fish with metal legs – a relic of World War II research. His visuals and storytelling is famous even outside Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjs1rsrTSjI
Kojima and myself are fans. pic.twitter.com/Jbp7qtRGfo
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 27, 2015
He created GYO. The ONLY comic that has actually made me jump- with a moment that follows this image… pic.twitter.com/Fo8FuhT3Gt
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 27, 2015
This also explains why there is a lot of spiral imagery in the Silent Hill playable teaser that was yanked out by Konami months ago.
Perhaps one day these three minds – Kojima, del Toro and Itoh can get together on another project. Meanwhile, let’s weep on what-could-have-been – an awesome and disturbing horror game.
