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The Latest Grudge Film Is Concurrent With the Sarah Michelle Gellar Remake
Original source: io9.gizmodo.com
Next year’s entry in The Grudge series won’t just be a spiritual successor to Takashi Shimizu’s franchise—it’ll be happening alongside it.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the latest Sam Raimi-produced Grudge film takes place at the same time as the 2004 American remake of Ju-on, which was directed by Shimizu, the man behind the original series.
Shimizu is not involved, even though he directed The Grudge and Grudge 2 and served as an executive producer on the third one.
For being a movie set in this anthology series, it’s done a lot of things that have separated it from its origins.
“The beauty of The Grudge franchise, both the American and Japanese iterations, is it’s an anthology series.