13 Movies You Won't Believe Are Being Rebooted Already

5. The Grudge

The Original: Here's where things really get complicated. The original Japanese Grudge series began with the 2000 straight-to-video film Ju-on: The Curse, and the third film in that series, 2002's Ju-on: The Grudge, was a remake of the original 2000 film, before the seventh and most recent film in the series, 2014's Ju-on: The Beginning of the End, functioned as a reboot. This is without even talking about the 2004's The Grudge, an English-language remake of 2002's Ju-on, which was also directed by Ju-on creator Takashi Shimizu, and released to a huge $187 million box office despite mixed reviews. Despite being panned by critics and quickly writing Sarah Michelle Gellar out, 2006's The Grudge 2 was a hit (if still grossing less than half of the original), and 2009's The Grudge 3, produced on a small $5 million budget as well as going straight-to-video in many markets, again made a lesser but still impressive profit. Time Since The Last Movie: 5 years, 6 months The Reboot: It was announced this past March that Sam Raimi would be producing a reboot to be written by Midnight Meat Train's Jeff Buhler. Given that even the original movies weren't exactly fantastic, it's hard to chalk up much excitement for this one.