After it was recently revealed that Bonnie Aarons and Taissa Farmiga have joined the cast of The Nun, a new update to the cast is now being reported.
According to Deadline, Jonas Bloquet will play a role in New Line Cinema's The Nun, although details on his character have yet to be revealed.
In addition to the aforementioned Aarons and Farmiga, Bloquet joins Demián Bichir in the cast, who, according to THR, will play "a priest named Father Burke, who is dispatched by Rome to investigate the mysterious death of a nun."
Bloquet recently played Vincent in Paul Verhoeven's Elle and will appear in Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Set to explore the backstory of the demonic nun encountered by paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring 2, The Nun is directed by Corin Hardy (The Hallow) from a screenplay co-written by James Wan and Gary Dauberman, with Wan also producing the project with Peter Safran. New Line Cinema has slated the film for a July 13th, 2018 release. Filming on The Nun is underway in Romania.
As fans of The Conjuring franchise know, this isn't the first character encountered by the Warrens to receive its own movie. In 2014, New Line released Annabelle, a film about the haunted doll faced by the Warrens (and eventually held behind glass in their museum). Annabelle: Creation, a follow-up to that movie, is scheduled to come out on August 11th, 2017, and was directed by David F. Sandberg (who also helmed Lights Out). Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on both Annabelle: Creation and The Nun.
Jonas Bloquet (center) in 3 Days to Kill:
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