Carrie-Anne Moss, who stars in this film as Claudia Wolf, was originally approached by producers to star in the first Silent Hill.
Roger Avary was originally set to write the film and had actually begun writing a draft when he was sent to jail for gross vehicular manslaughter and two felony counts of causing bodily injury while intoxicated. The film was then delayed until the studio hired Michael J. Bassett in Fall 2010 to write and direct.
Production was delayed when a freak snowstorm hit the set in Cambridge, Ontario on 23 March 2011.