The Ring

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The magazine that Rachel looks at says "Rings in the new year".	D
Amber Tamblyn would go to appear in another Japanese horror remake, The Grudge 2 (2006). Excluding t [...]	D
Sold more than two million DVD copies in the U.S. alone in its first 24 hours of video release.	D
The role of Rachel was first offered to Jennifer Connelly (who would later star in another Japanese [...]	D
The original cut of the film was over 130 minutes, with an estimated 20 minutes of footage excised f [...]	D
The ring shape motif is unique to the American remake. KÃ´ji Suzuki, the author of the novel upon [...]	D
At one point, in the scene where Rachel is researching Anna Morgan and Moesko Island, she finds info [...]	D
Brian Cox was the only actor considered to play Richard Morgan. He turned down a part in Ghost Ship [...]	D
A lot of alleged "ghost sightings" videos have had a ghost that copied Samara's "look," with the hai [...]	D
Becca, who is based on Masami from Ringu (1998), is featured in a subplot where she's institutionali [...]	D
Reiko (Rachel's Japanese counterpart), after figuring out that she only survived the curse because s [...]	D
When Noah searches through the archives on Anna Morgan, Japanese writing is seen briefly on paper. T [...]	D
A theory about how Samara kills her victims is that she mentally projects all of the images from the [...]	D
Producer Neal Edelstein offered the remake to David Lynch to direct, but he turned it down.	D
This film was originally promoted under the title "Ring," like The Ring (1998), the original Japanes [...]	D
In both the American and Japanese versions, the name of the little girl is connected to a story abou [...]	D
The type of ghost that Samara (and her Japanese incarnation Sadako) is based on is the mythological [...]	D
Subtle images of circles in various forms, such as the designs on the doctor's sweater, the shower d [...]	D
During the scene in which Rachel is on the balcony looking into windows of another building, shown o [...]	D
Brian Cox plays a character whose wife killed herself after psychically receiving horrific images fr [...]	D
In the space of four years since the original The Ring (1998), the production budget multiplied roug [...]	D
Stuntwoman Kelly Stables, in an uncredited role, played the ghostly Samara when she crawls out of th [...]	D
Rachel finds out that one of the kids who watched the tape at the lodge died in a motorcycle crash i [...]	D
The massive success of The Sixth Sense (1999) was what gave Paramount Pictures the confidence to gre [...]	D
The pen that Rachel Keller uses throughout the film is a Sensa.	D
While the film takes place in Seattle, in earlier drafts of the screenplay, it originally took place [...]	D
Gore Verbinski deliberately chose not to cast major stars as any of the main or supporting character [...]	D
Old electrodes are shown in the film, in the flashbacks to Samara's stay in the hospital, heavily im [...]	D
There are several moments of foreshadowing in the film to future events in the plot: * Rachel pulls [...]	D
The tree with the fiery red leaves featured in the movie is a Japanese maple. The fruit of this tree [...]	D
Samara's psychic abilities are known as Nensha, which is a form of spirit photography that enables s [...]	D
Since the release of "The Ring" in Canada, the story of the cursed video has become very popular in [...]	D
A Bad Religion sticker is partially visible in Noah's locker in the A/V room; Gore Verbinski (credit [...]	D
In a deleted scene, local fishermen tell Rachel some details of Samara's backstory. They tell her th [...]	D
Until Stephen King's It (2017), this movie was the highest-grossing horror remake in history, with a [...]	D
Aidan's teacher is wearing a shirt which has horse figures on it, suggesting the same hint can be fo [...]	D
Playing the movie frame by frame, in the exact moment when Katie Embry is scared to death at the beg [...]	D
When Rachel is looking off her balcony at the units of other residents, she focuses on one apartment [...]	D
The "Moesko Island Lighthouse" is a fictional name for a real lighthouse located in Newport, Oregon. [...]	D
After the horse jumps off the ferry and gets (presumably) chopped up in the propellers, the titular [...]	D
The "cursed" video is available as an easter egg on the DVD. Select look here and press down and you [...]	D
When Noah and Rachel return to the inn, at the end of the movie, there's a sign that reads "Closed u [...]	D
To promote this film the studio placed copies of the mysterious "killer tape" at concerts and events [...]	D
The possibility that Samara's father is an ocean demon was taken from Ringu (1998), and is an explan [...]	D
One of producer Walter F. Parkes' executives rang him and told him to immediately go see a Japanese [...]	D
Long before the movie premiered, the killer video was used as a commercial. The commercial did not m [...]	D
Jennifer Love Hewitt was offered the role of Rachel Keller, but turned it down, not wishing to be ty [...]	D
Although the meaning of the title "The Ring" is ambiguous, KÃ´ji Suzuki, the author of the origina [...]	D
Just like with the original Japanese film Ring (1998), the lead protagonist from the novel was gende [...]	D
DreamWorks took an unusual but effective tack on the release plan for this film. When the lengthy po [...]	D
Daveigh Chase took the role of Samara after losing the role of Sarah Altman in Panic Room (2002) to [...]	D
It's 59 minutes before Brian Cox makes a proper appearance in the film. Even then, he only gets 4 mi [...]	D
It is often incorrectly assumed by viewers that Rachel survived the 7 day week after watching the ta [...]	D
There are no title cards or opening credits to the movie, although there is a flash of "the ring" du [...]	D
The original WGA-approved credits listed Hiroshi Takahashi (writer of the original 1998 screenplay f [...]	D
Naomi Watts appears in this film with Amber Tamblyn. Watts worked with her father Russ on Twin Peaks [...]	D
Production designer Tom Duffield relied on Andrew Wyeth's paintings as his main visual inspiration f [...]	D
First collaboration between director Gore Verbinski and composer Hans Zimmer. Ever since then, Zimme [...]	D
In the opening scene, Katie (Amber Tamblyn) is walking around barefoot. The wardrobe department actu [...]	D
On its first week of release in the U.S. and Canada, select cinemas put actual copies of the cursed [...]	D
In a rare negative review that even surprised his colleagues, Roger Ebert gave the film a 2 out of 4 [...]	D
For the choice of the film's color, it was decided that everything was to be tinged with the color g [...]	D
This went into production without a completed script. Ehren Kruger had done three drafts when Scott [...]	D
If one looks closely at Samara's fingers, she is lacking fingernails, as a result of trying to climb [...]	D
Nearly every single scene in the film is set in daylight, with only the opening scene with Katie and [...]	D
Katie and Becca are wearing what appears to be Japanese schoolgirl uniforms in the opening scene, a [...]	D
In one scene, Naomi Watts pulls a long string out of her mouth. In director Gore Verbinski's feature [...]	D
Amber Tamblyn (Katie) and David Dorfman (Aidan) also appeared together in the television series Joan [...]	D
During the climax of the film when Naomi Watts' character is knocked into the well by the television [...]	D
Samara's name means "protected by God" in Hebrew, alluding to her biologically supernatural origins. [...]	D
Naomi Watts: [starring in remakes] The success of The Ring (2002) at the box-office paved the way fo [...]	D
Seattle, Washington was chosen as the chief location of the film production because of its wet, isol [...]	D
Chris Cooper appeared in a small role but was cut from the film. In an interview Cooper told Sci Fi [...]	D
Tess Hall's debut.	D
Sadako was a fully grown woman in the Japanese original film and the novel when she had died. She wa [...]	D
In the opening of the film,Katie(Amber Tamblyn)and Becca(Rachel Bella)are lying around in a bedroom, [...]	D
the tree with fiery red leaves is a Japanese maple. The fruit that this tree produces is called a sa [...]	D
The red Japanese maple (seen in the video) was artificial, built out of steel tubing and plaster, wi [...]	D
The October 3, 2001 draft of the screenplay credited Scott Frank as a writer, who revised the screen [...]	D
An interesting feature on the VHS release: rewind the tape to the very beginning. (Or just put the t [...]	D

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