The Nun 2 confirmed in Warner Bros. sizzle reel at CinemaCon

UPDATE: Our friends at Bloody Disgusting are reporting that The Curse of La Llorona and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It director Michael Chaves has signed on to direct The Nun 2.

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We’re coming up on the four year anniversary of the release of the Conjuring Universe entry The Nun (which you can get HERE), a film that earned $365 million at the global box office, on a budget of $22 million. It was no surprise when The Nun‘s home studio Warner Bros. announced that there would be a sequel… the surprise is that we haven’t seen one yet. But The Nun 2 was one of the movies promoted as an upcoming Warner Bros. release in the sizzle reel the studio showed at CinemaCon yesterday, so it looks like it might finally be going into production soon.

Three years have gone by since Conjuring Universe producer Peter Safran said they had a “really fun storyline” for The Nun 2, which Akeela Cooper (Malignant) had been hired to write. After a long stretch of silence, The Nun star Taissa Farmiga recently started hearing

whisperings and talks (about The Nun 2) … I heard mentions of it back in the fall, maybe, and there were talks of potentially trying to see what my availability was. But I also haven’t seen a script. So I haven’t heard anything definitive or anyone say, “Hey, this is going.” So I don’t know, but I would love to go back and visit Sister Irene. It’s been years.”

Directed by Corin Hardy from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman, The Nun told the following story:

When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate.  Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret.  Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in “The Conjuring 2,” as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned. 

Farmiga was joined in the cast by Demian Bichir, Jonas Bloquet, Charlotte Hope, and Ingrid Bisu, with Bonnie Aarons as the titular demonic entity that was introduced in The Conjuring 2.