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Good:

It sounds like Christophe Gans is going to direct a film version of Onimusha next. No doubt this will be slammed by critics but loved by fans, in much the same way as Silent Hill. I have high hopes for this; Onimusha features similarly demonic elements, and given the excellent job Gans did on Silent Hill, he should capture the atmosphere of the games nicely. It'll be interesting to see if the film is set in the past, or present, or both (as one of the more recent games did). It'll also be interesting to see if Jean Reno comes on board…

Bad:

Wes Craven and son are writing the sequel to The Hills Have Eyes. Didn't Wes already do that? It sounds like a rush job; the studio want to release the sequel on the same day as the original came out, but one year later. They describe some nonsense about the national guard performing a training exercise around the mines featured in the first film, and then tangling with the mutant miners from the first film. But…didn't they already kill them all off? There'll certainly be no room for Billy Drago in the sequel. Aja isn't interested in directing (perhaps because it sounds rubbish?) so Craven has lined up Michael J. Bassett (Deathwatch) instead.