Rings (The Ring 3) (2017, D: F. Javier Gutiérrez)
07-18-14, 12:12 PM
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Rings (The Ring 3) (2017, D: F. Javier Gutiérrez)
Paramount has hired F. Javier Gutiérrez to direct the third movie in its The Ring series, marking the Spanish filmmaker’s second gig helming a studio genre franchise after being tapped to reboot The Crow for Relativity and The Weinstein Co. The Ring threequel is being produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald. It’s the latest installment of the $400M-grossing horror franchise first launched stateside by Gore Verbinski in 2002. Gutiérrez earned notice on the international genre scene with his 2008 breakout debut feature Before the Fall (Tres días). He’s repped by WME, manager Dan Farah, and attorney Stephen Clark.
07-18-14, 02:41 PM
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The first film was overrated and I never even saw the second one. Sort of surprises me that Paramount is going back to it again after all this time without an entry in the series. I suppose though horror films are relatively cheap to make and pretty easy to turn a profit on.
07-18-14, 10:12 PM
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07-18-14, 10:42 PM
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There's only been one good Ring movie, and it was the original from Japan. The Japanese sequels are awful, the American remake is bland and I hear the sequel is awful, and there's a Korean version running around that's also awful.
07-19-14, 12:39 AM
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I did not even know that there was a second one. Reading the plot at wiki, it doesn't sound that bad.
Should Watts come back? I guess not.
Wouldn't surprise me if they make The Others 2.
Should Watts come back? I guess not.
Wouldn't surprise me if they make The Others 2.
07-19-14, 12:50 AM
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I'll stick to the original.
It lays waste to the remake.
Speaking of which... Verbinski has yet to make a single engaging live action film. He makes a shit ton for the studios but his work is thoroughly unengaging on every level.
It lays waste to the remake.
Speaking of which... Verbinski has yet to make a single engaging live action film. He makes a shit ton for the studios but his work is thoroughly unengaging on every level.
07-19-14, 07:28 AM
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While The Ring Two wasn't quite as good as it's predecessor, I still liked it enough to keep it in my collection. I'll be interested to see what they do with a 3rd installment.
07-19-14, 10:44 PM
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In the book it turns out that Sadako, the creepy ghost girl, was one of the last people in the world to contract smallpox and was confined to a remote sanitarium. One of the nurses tried to rape her, discovered she was a hermaphrodite and pushed her down a well. Somehow the smallpox virus mingled with her DNA and gained her psychic powers, which it used to imprint itself on videotapes. Anyone who watches the tapes then develops smallpox and dies exactly seven days later.
The second book gets even more ridiculous as it turns out the new smallpox virus also causes people to turn into duplicates of Sadako.
I'm not making that up.
07-20-14, 11:03 AM
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Thought the American remake was slightly better than the Japanese original myself. The horse on the ferry is probably the most effective scene in any film in the series.
03-13-15, 12:27 PM
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It was announced a few weeks back that Rings, the newest incarnation of the J-horror franchise that’s to be directed by F. Javier Gutierrez and stars Italian actress Matilda Lutz, will hit theaters November 13, 2015.
Now, with casting is underway, Bloody Disgusting was able to find out what the 3-D Ring will be about. Our sources tell us that the new The Ring is actually a prequel, and takes place before the 2002 remake that starred Naomi Watts as a woman uncovering the mystery behind a haunted VHS tape. Rings will take place years before the creation of said tape and tell the origin of Samara’s reign of terror.
“Rings” is also the name of the short – directed by TCM 2 and TMNTs’ Jonathan Liebesman – that accompanied the purchase of The Ring 2 on home video in 2005.
Aviva Goldsman, David Loucka and Jacon Aaron Estes all had a hand in writing the script, which is based on the 1991 novel by Koji Suzuki.
Now, with casting is underway, Bloody Disgusting was able to find out what the 3-D Ring will be about. Our sources tell us that the new The Ring is actually a prequel, and takes place before the 2002 remake that starred Naomi Watts as a woman uncovering the mystery behind a haunted VHS tape. Rings will take place years before the creation of said tape and tell the origin of Samara’s reign of terror.
“Rings” is also the name of the short – directed by TCM 2 and TMNTs’ Jonathan Liebesman – that accompanied the purchase of The Ring 2 on home video in 2005.
Aviva Goldsman, David Loucka and Jacon Aaron Estes all had a hand in writing the script, which is based on the 1991 novel by Koji Suzuki.
03-13-15, 01:09 PM
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There's very good reason for that -- the original novel is fucking awful.
In the book it turns out that Sadako, the creepy ghost girl, was one of the last people in the world to contract smallpox and was confined to a remote sanitarium. One of the nurses tried to rape her, discovered she was a hermaphrodite and pushed her down a well. Somehow the smallpox virus mingled with her DNA and gained her psychic powers, which it used to imprint itself on videotapes. Anyone who watches the tapes then develops smallpox and dies exactly seven days later.
The second book gets even more ridiculous as it turns out the new smallpox virus also causes people to turn into duplicates of Sadako.
I'm not making that up.
In the book it turns out that Sadako, the creepy ghost girl, was one of the last people in the world to contract smallpox and was confined to a remote sanitarium. One of the nurses tried to rape her, discovered she was a hermaphrodite and pushed her down a well. Somehow the smallpox virus mingled with her DNA and gained her psychic powers, which it used to imprint itself on videotapes. Anyone who watches the tapes then develops smallpox and dies exactly seven days later.
The second book gets even more ridiculous as it turns out the new smallpox virus also causes people to turn into duplicates of Sadako.
I'm not making that up.
Also none of these sequels are based on the books, so there's that.
03-13-15, 10:03 PM
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Fuck prequels.
I'm REALLY hating this current trend of franchise reboots (or whatever) going back and explaining away everything that made them unique.
I'm REALLY hating this current trend of franchise reboots (or whatever) going back and explaining away everything that made them unique.
03-13-15, 10:51 PM
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Man, I forgot how much I hated the early 2000s when every horror movie was a PG-13 remake of a Japanese horror movie. Thank goodness those days are over!
03-14-15, 06:55 AM
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The Ring is a rare case where I think the American remake is better than the original.
Didn't they already have a short film called Rings set between the two American films?
Didn't they already have a short film called Rings set between the two American films?
03-14-15, 10:50 AM
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I also liked the US version better, it was visually very appealing too.
03-14-15, 01:12 PM
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The US version of The Ring freaked me the hell out. I remember how amazed I was at the first person who told me it wasn't scary.
03-14-15, 04:38 PM
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Count me among those who thought the American remake was better than the original, but the sequel was absolutely horrible.
