Hot on the heels of its release delay from 2015 to 2016, The Conjuring 2 now has a director, and fans of the first film will be happy to know that James Wan is returning to helm the sequel.
Deadline reports that James Wan will direct The Conjuring 2, the follow-up to his 2013 scary smash-hit, for Warner Bros. subsidiary New Line Cinema. Shooting will commence next summer. We now know that New Line's postponement of The Conjuring 2's release from October 23rd, 2015 to sometime in 2016 was to give Wan space in his schedule to publicize his recently directed Fast & Furious 7, due out from Universal on April 3rd, 2015.
The director has also signed a first-look producing agreement with New Line. The deal will allow Wan to create and back science fiction, horror, and comedy films under his own Atomic Monster production label.
2013's The Conjuring followed the real-life married paranormal investigating duo, Ed and Lorraine Warren, as they confronted a demonic force at a family's farmhouse in 1971. The Conjuring 2 will follow Ed and Lorraine as they take on another supernatural case, with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprising their respective roles.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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