The first casting news for The Conjuring 2 spinoff The Nun reveals that an actor from Alien: Covenant will experience the supernatural following his time in deep space.
According to THR, Demián Bichir will star in The Nun as "a priest named Father Burke who is dispatched by Rome to investigate the mysterious death of a nun."
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.
Further plot details are unknown at this time, other than the fact that the spinoff will focus on the villainous nun who was inserted into The Conjuring 2 toward the end of shooting after Wan came up with the idea for the creepy character played by Bonnie Aarons. Filming on The Nun is taking place in Romania.
Bichir will soon be seen on the big screen in Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant and recently played Bob in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. Viewers may also recognize him as Marco Ruiz from the TV series The Bridge.
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 all of these projects, and let us know what you think about a film dedicated to the Nun. Are you interested in seeing the backstory of this particular phantasmal force?
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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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