Director Guillermo del Toro is back in a familiar setting: the cancellation of an upcoming project.
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Konami is pulling 'P.T.', the 'Playable Teaser' for its upcoming horror title Silent Hills from the PSN this Wednesday. The wonderfully atmospheric and terrifying demo starred The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus and showcases all the weird and wonderful stuff that del Toro, who is no stranger to the macabre and visually appealing, was going to bring to the series.
But with the departure of Hideo Kojima from Konami, who was working alongside del Toro, the game's fate was left in the balance. Yesterday during a press conference, del Toro confirmed the game's death, and later on Twitter, Reedus put the final nail in the coffin:
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"Super bummed about this was really looking forward to it. Hopefully it'll come back around. Sorry everyone," Reedus told the world.
The director is known for attaching himself to many projects at once, many of which are cancelled or given to other people to handle, thus breaking our hearts over and over again. He's been on several highly anticipated film projects in the past which have fizzled and burned. A good friend of Peter Jackson, he was the original director for The Hobbit films, and can you imagine what we may have gotten with his vision. An adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's 'At The Mountains of Madness', a clear influence on del Toro's work, was in the development phase before being killed due to del Toro's insistence on an 'R' rating.
Nor is this the first video game project that has been cancelled from him. Back in 2010, he announced the development of a horror game titled 'inSANE', but in 2012 announced its cancellation when THQ was going under. Like many a del Toro project, nothing is ever truly dead.
Still, losing P.T. is a shame. But there's still time to download the demo over at PSN!
