The Grudge 3 - out on dvd from Ghost House on May 12th

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From Sci-Fi Wire, in the middle of an interview promoting "30 Days of Night" :

Also in the pipeline is the third film in the Grudge franchise, which is currently in the script stage. "There is a writer working on a Grudge 3 right now," Raimi said. "He's working on the screenplay. And he's going to be getting notes from us in about a week and going to go back to work on a second draft. We're trying to finish it before the [possible] writers' strike."

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[COLOR="Blue"]From the previously unknown ShockTillYouDrop site, inside word is that one Toby Wilkins will direct "The Grudge 3," but not with SMG. They describe him as "an FX vet and the director of 'The Grudge 2' tie-ins, 'Tales of the Grudge,' " and he might begin filming as early as January of '08, depending on script development.

"The first two installments made a collective $260 million in worldwide ticket sales, on a combined budget of $30 million."[/COLOR]

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From Sci-Fi Wire, some Q&A with the stars, the director, and producer J.R. Young; exceprts:

Q: J.R., how did this project first come together?

Young: After the second Grudge movie opened really well, everyone was really excited and wanted to go forward with a third movie. We started kicking around different story ideas, and at that time we had already worked with Toby [Wilkins] on a number of projects, including Tales From the Grudge, so he kind of became the obvious choice. We talked to the original director, Takashi Shimizu, who he had done five Ju-on movies and said he was fully supportive of it but wanted to hand it off, and Toby became our guy.

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Q: How quickly and easily did this come together?

Young: We had a really great writer, Brad Keene, who came in and had a take on it early on. He was a big fan of all of the Grudge films, and Ju-on, and his ideas were right in line with where the franchise could evolve. Between Toby, myself and the team, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, kind of working together, Brad did a great job getting the script together quickly.

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Q: Why do you think the Grudge series has had such longevity?

Young: For me, I think it all started with one global incident: the fact that evil can keep spreading. The fact that you can never escape something in your past and try to move beyond it, but that it's always there behind you, I think that's the theme that kind of runs through all of the movies, and I think that's really scary.....

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This will be on Syfy at 7 PM Sun. 11/21.