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I just read that “The Ring 2” - which is a remake of the Japanese film Ringu 2, which was the sequel to Ringu, which was remade into The Ring - has a new director. The guy who made the original(s) - Ringu and Ringu 2 - will be doing the Americanized version, too.

From Sci-Fi Wire:

Hideo Nakata, the Japanese director behind the hit Japanese horror film Ringu, is in talks to helm The Ring 2, the sequel to the U.S. version of Nakata’s original movie, Variety reported. Nakata would replace Noam Murro, who left the DreamWorks sequel project earlier this week over creative differences, the trade paper reported. The Ring 2 would mark Nakata’s American directorial debut now that he is no longer directing True Believers at MGM.

In addition to Ringu, Nakata also directed that film’s sequel, released in Japan in 1999, a year after the first film, the trade paper reported.

The Ring 2, written by Ehren Kruger, is a departure from the Japanese sequel Ringu 2.