As of right now the plan is to hold the film for a few years and go into the franchise "with a new fresh story," Lee tells Bloody-Disgusting. So the good news is that one day we might see the return of Samara! The original plan was to tell the origins of Samara in a similar fashion to the Japanese film <Ring o: Birthday. In the 2001 smash hit remake, a young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.