The Ring 2 Hits Theatres this Fall

(andPOP) - With the success of 2002?s surprise hit ?The Ring? Naomi Watts, Dreamworks Pictures, and ?Ringu? director Hideo Nakata (to which the American version was based) have joined forces with the release of a sequel to hit theaters November 10th. Daveigh Chase, who played Samara Morgan, will not be returning for this film however her character will remain.

Sci Fi Wire chatted with Naomi Watts about DreamWorks' The Ring 2. She says her character is now dealing with the deaths she?s causing in the first film, while trying to save her son from the Samara Morgan curse.

"I actually feel that the emotional arc is a little stronger," Watts said. "Showing how this person has grown, and how do you play these horrible things that she's had to live through? She is responsible for a lot of death, and so, I think, living with a huge thing. But she's trying to be a more caring and responsible mother, and that's how it starts out."

Watts adds that the studio made sure the sequel wouldn't just repeat the first film. "I think they've been really careful about that. We have the wanted scares, but they're never cheap shock-value moments. They're usually more creepy. And there are more moral dilemmas. There's a lot of other ideas that have been introduced, but I can't tell you... It's not just the tape and the phone."

Here?s hoping that this particular film lives up to the original, for it has some big shoes to fill in both scares and box-office draw.