Raimi & Tapert Making 'The Grudge 2'

[Friday, January 28th, 2005]
Grudge PosterThe Grudge producers Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert say they are working with director Takashi Shimizu to make the sequel The Grudge 2. "We just came from a big story conference this whole last week," Raimi told Now Playing Magazine. "[Shimizu] came to America, to Los Angeles, and we met with him in a little room on the Columbia Pictures lot and hammered out an outline for the first draft of part two. And he's planning, I think, on working in the same subtle, elegant way that he made the first film in."

Tapert says that the sequel won't be based on the Japanese version. "The second one is much more of a standalone movie than [the first one] was," Tapert said. "In fact, there are very few elements in the second one, at least where it is right now, that are derivative of previous works. [The first one] kind of borrowed from all of the previous movies that have gone before. [And this one is going in a new direction,] and that's one of the reasons that the director is interested. He's kind of told the story so many times that he didn't want to go back and revisit what he's done, and it was only that [he and] the writer had some new ideas that they wanted to explore in terms of The Grudge [that brought them back]."

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