[AnchorMan86]

According to this article Hideo Nakata is looking to direct a third American Ring film, which would be a prequel to the last two. He says he would base it on Ring 0, a Japanese movie he directed, which tells the story of the earlier life of Yamamura Sadako (Japan's version of Samara Morgan) and the events leading up to her gruesome death.

I'd be very interested to see Hollywood's take on the prequel. The Japanese Ring films as a whole seem to focus more on the supernatural horror aspect of the story (I myself have only seen the first one, Ring), and not so much on the interpersonal and family themes. The Ring Two surprised me with how much it played up the theme of parental love, albeit in a somewhat disturbing, twisted way. Since the glimpses of Samara's past we have seen in flashbacks in The Ring are already very much inconsistent with the backstory presented in the Japanese Ring 0, we can expect that any American version of The Ring 0 will be quite different, as The Ring Two was from its Japanese counterpart.

Also there's the issue of casting. I'm guessing Naomi Watts won't be needed for this film, which is okay because I understand that her contract was only for two movies. Hopefully Daveigh Chase will be back - she was amazingly scary in the first movie, and I was very disappointed that she did not return for The Ring Two.

Any thoughts/comments?

~Mark