Is “The Ring Two” a remake of Ringu 2 in any way, or is it totally different?
Kruger: No, it’s totally different. There are some thematic similarities. Just by the material’s very nature, it’s going to deal with a videotape and it’s going to deal with this vengeful little girl. It’s going to deal with this mother and her son, but story-wise it’s an entirely different story than the Japanese sequel. And so that appealed to Hideo as well, that it was a totally different story. He’d be revisiting things he’d done before, but the themes and the way the story plays out is totally different than the structure of Ringu 2. Where does the story pick up for Naomi Watts’ character? Kruger: It basically picks her up, I don’t know that we say exactly, but it’s more or less six months after the events of the first film. She’s basically trying to put the events of the first movie entirely behind her and pretend they never happened. [She’s going to] live in denial. Which never works in a horror movie. Kruger: (Laughs) Right. Which never works. It never works in reality either.
