Nicole Kidman Wants ‘The Others' Sequel

Nicole Kidman has been around since the late ‘80s, and amassed over 100 screen credits. She’s in Oscar contention again this year, and continues to work at a feverish pace.

You name your favorite Kidman performances. There are many. She’s an all-timer. I’d pick her turns in “Birth,” “To Die For,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Babygirl,” “Dogville,” and “The Others” as her best work.

Speaking of “The Others,” Alejandro Amenábar’s haunting ghost story, released in 2001, has inspired Kidman to tell The Guardian that she wants to revisit her character, Grace, in a sequel, and that it’s the one film she would most want to make a sequel out of:

The character I would love to go back to is the character in “The Others,” Grace, because I feel like ‘The Others’ gets overlooked and I loved that character.

Someone contact Amenábar, who has been struggling of late, and tell him Kidman is down for the sequel. Then again, maybe it’s not the best idea given that it’d be impossible to recreate the whiplash of “The Others,” which has immaculate atmosphere and ends with a mighty fine twist ending.

That’s the thing about “The Others,” it came out just two years after “The Sixth Sense,” and was originally brushed off as a ripoff. Nonsense. Set in 1945, “The Others” stands on its own. The story tackled a desperate mother trying to protect her two young photosensitive children while waiting for her soldier husband to return from the war. As new staff join the house, Grace begins to experience a supernatural phenomena.

“The Others” earned strong reviews, grossing $210M off a $17M budget, and Kidman was even nominated for a Golden Globe. For the time being, Kidman has “Practical Magic 2,” and “Welcome to Holland” as her next film projects, and that’s not mentioning the three TV projects she currently has in pre or post production.