I haven't read about a release that includes an alternate or extended cut of the movie, even if Cooper's scenes seem to change the film's plot a bit it would be cool to see them. Does anyone know if they've been destroyed completely or are still out there?
shareDo you mean the innkeeper? He looks a lot like Chris Cooper, but that is a different actor for sure. If that's who you mean, there is a scene where Noah finds him dead in a boat out on the lake behind his building. It's probably on YouTube.
EDIT: It was right here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSX6oYz1kkQ
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No, there's an entirely dropped sequence that involved Chris Cooper as a child murderer. Rachel ends up giving him the tape.
The only thing that exists at all is a newspaper clipping with a photo of his character at the end of the film when Noah picks up his cup of coffee (that leaves a ring on it).
I don't know why those particular scenes never made it into deleted scenes.
No, not the mind probe!
He was interviewed about this actually:
Chris Cooper told SCI FI Wire that he acted in two scenes in the supernatural thriller film The Ring, but that the scenes were deleted during the test-screening process. "It was what they call a bookend," Cooper said in an interview. "I opened the movie and closed the movie. It was two scenes, and I was a serial rapist or a murderer who deserved everything that was coming to him. Because [Naomi Watts' character] was a journalist, I was trying to convince her that I had found God and I had straightened my ways and rehabilitated myself. I was looking for an out, and she didn't buy it, correctly so. Then in the tail end, she pays me a visit and gives me the tape...The film as released ends ambiguously. Cooper said his bookends caused too many questions in test screenings. "What I hear is when they ran the screenings, it was more a disruption than anything. They said, 'Well, where's Cooper? We want to see more of him.' So they cut it all.