Sam Raimi and Rob Tabert talk The Grudge 2

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With The Grudge coming to DVD next week, Raimi and Tapert took the time to chat with Now Playing about the film, an adaptation of the Japanese horror hit Ju-on. They also spilled the beans, a bit, about the currently developing sequel to the picture.

"We just came from a big story conference this whole last week," says Raimi, adding that Takashi Shimizu, the director of both "The Grudge" and "Ju-on", is back. "He came to America, to Los Angeles, and we met with him in a little room on the Columbia Pictures lot and hammered out an outline for the first draft of part two. And heâ€™s planning, I think, on working in the same subtle, elegant way that he made the first film in."

And will we be seeing the first filmâ€™s star, Sarah Michelle Gellar, in the sequel? Tapert and Raimi are staying mum on the subject for now.

"Oh, ho, ha, ha!" Tapert intones. "I canâ€™t tell you right now. It still takes place in Japan, let me put it this way. It still takes place on Earth! Itâ€™s set in Tokyo. In some capacity, perhaps she might return."

You can read the whole interview here.

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