Fans of Paranormal
Activity will eventually have a choice of two sequels rather than just one. A
parallel second installment is in preparation for Japanese audiences, under the
title Paranormal
Activity: Tokyo Night.
It’s not a
Japanese-language remake. The entirely new story picks up after the Oren Peli
original, and follows a foreign exchange student (via her home-videos, natch)
who becomes the new object of the stalker-poltergeist’s affection when she
visits San Diego, and unwittingly brings it back to her Tokyo family home.
“Paranormal Activity was
a huge success with Japanese audiences”, said producer Yasutaka Hanada, “and we
feel confident that our own Japanese continuation of the franchise can find an
enthusiastic genre audience both here and overseas.”
Toshikazu Nagae [Ghost
System] is directing from his own screenplay, with Noriko Aoyama as his scream
queen. The fast-moving production should get its home-territory release in
December. Paranormal Activity 2, English-language-style, is out for Hallowe’en.