According to Fatal Frame producer Keisuke Kikuchi in an interview with 4Gamer, the previously announced movie adaptation of the survival horror series is currently progressing in development outside Japan.
Zero: The Movie (2014). Zero being the Japanese name of the Fatal Frame series.
This actually is not something new. There has already been a Japanese Fatal Frame movie, which was released in 2014. An English adaptation of Fatal Frame has also been in development since 2014 with this most recent development basically confirming that it is still on the way.
The new western made film is being produced by Samuel Hadida who also produced the Silent Hill movies and the later Resident Evil movies. It is being directed by French director Christophe Gans. Here’s what he had to say about the movie in a 2020 interview, alongside talks on a new Silent Hill movie:
“I am working on the adaptation of the video game Project Zero (Fatal Frame) The film will take place in Japan. I especially don’t want to uproot the game from its Japanese haunted house setting. And we’re also working on a new Silent Hill. The project will always be anchored in this atmosphere of a small American town, ravaged by Puritanism. I think it’s time to make a new one.”
It is interesting to know that the movie will still take place in Japan, within a Japanese haunted house, a setting that has been seen as integral to the series since conception.
Kikuchi has previously said that he would like for there to be future Fatal Frame sequels but it all depends partially on how the upcoming Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water performs.
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, the fifth main entry in the Fatal Frame video game series will release on the 28th of October for Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC.
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water
Publisher: Koei Tecmo Games
Developer: KOEI TECMO
Release Date: 2021-10-28
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Steam, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
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