The Forever Purge moves forward for Fourth of July weekend release

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

The Purge: Election Year and The First Purge were both in theatres for the Fourth of July, so I always thought it was a little odd that the latest – and apparently final – entry in the Purge franchise kept being scheduled for the week after the Fourth of July. The Forever Purge was originally supposed to reach theatres on July 10, 2020, and when the pandemic hit it was pushed back to July 9, 2021. But now it has been announced that The Forever Purge is moving up to July 2, 2021 and will be in theatres for the Fourth. As it should be.

The Forever Purge was able to move to July 2 because the major release Top Gun: Maverick vacated the date, getting pushed to November.

Directed by Everardo Gout from a screenplay by franchise creator James DeMonaco (who has written every film in the series and directed the first three), The Forever Purge takes place after the events of Election Year and will center on 

Adela (Ana de la Reguera) and Juan (Tenoch Huerta), who find solace at a Texan ranch, having fled a drug cartel in Mexico. Things go awry when a group of outsiders decide to keep purging beyond the allotted time when people can break any and all laws.

Ana de la Reguera and Tenoch Huerta are joined in the cast by Will Patton, Cassidy Freeman, and Leven Rambin.

The Forever Purge was produced by DeMonaco, Sébastien K. Lemercier, Jason Blum, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form.