Ring, Ring - An Interview with Nakata Hideo

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The Ringworld recently interviewed director Nakata Hideo as he talks about Ring 2 as well as his Japanese versions of the Ring films. This is a great read and fans of the Ring series should definately read this. Here are some highlights that I would like to "pull out" for our readers.

Q: What was your reaction to seeing the way they did the victims, the people killed by Samara, in the remake? The corpses are much more gory in the American version.

A: Um, I'd say I liked the difference. I completely understand Rick Baker's work, and I was thinking [of doing] the same thing, with special makeup and dummies. But we couldn't afford it, so we asked the actors, "Please open your mouth as much as you can and please hold your breath." But of course we could see that their eyes were still moving, their eyelashes were moving. So, for example, for the girl victim in the closet *1 we had to freeze the frame [laughs]. We had to use that kind of low-tech [approach] as much as we could. We couldn't afford to make, say, very good-looking and precise corpses. That's the interesting difference between Hollywood and Japan. Our Japanese way sometimes works but, you know, the American way is more kind of advanced, or elaborate. So I liked watching it.

Q: Does the American The Ring Two leave the possibility for a sequel?

A: Yeah, I think so.

Q: f there is another sequel, would you be interested in doing that, too?

A: Yes, I would.