Earlier this week, Warner Bros. included the The Nun 2 in their sizzle reel at the CinemaCon event, letting the world know that they’re finally ready to go into production on a sequel 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, when it was released back in 2018. Now Conjuring Universe producer James Wan has taken to social media to confirm that The Nun 2 is happening, with Michael Chaves (The Curse of La Llorona, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It) on board to direct and Bonnie Aarons reprising the role of the demonic nun that was first introduced in The Conjuring 2.
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, Ingrid Bisu, and Aarons.
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