Roger Avary has been talking about his work on adapting the videogame Silent Hill to a screenplay, and not just that but a good and true screenplay. Although nothing new is said here, there is one comment I like and is something I like about Avary in general, his downright honesty even when it may work against him.

From IGN:

"Christophe and I knew how passionate the video game fans are for Silent Hill," Avary told the trade. "At the minimum, we didn't want to piss them off. We wanted to make this movie for them. They're the canaries in the coal mine."

"Hollywood executives are very quick to want to throw out the source material of a game," he added. "Doom kills me. That was one of the movies I wanted to do so badly. I met with them early, on and I looked at the original script and asked, where's the Doom in this?"

I've heard that first comment before in various guises, he's always been very keen to point out how faithful they are being and he's always worked hard to keep in touch with the game fans. What is great that reading his blog (which seems to have disappeared since) actually said that before writing the screenplay he sat down with the games and played them. That's novel!

It's the last comment that gets me though, and it's a great one. Where is the Doom in that script?

I'm damn excited to see Silent Hill though, I think this could be the game to film winner to date, don't you?