James Wan is arguably the best horror director of our generation. The brilliant filmmaker has gifted us with three outstanding and successful horror franchises like Saw, Insidious and The Conjuring. Speaking about the Conjuring franchise, it all started in 2013. The box office and critical success of the first film paved the pathway the biggest horror franchise of our time. Following The Conjuring came The Conjuring 2, Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation, The Curse of La Llorona, Annabelle Comes Home, The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It and finally The Nun. Most of the films in this franchise are not great but they they’re super cheap to make and they provide enough cheap thrills for the audience to make their money back. The Nun came in 2018 and it was an extremely disappointing spin-off for a character like Valak. Valak was a fan favorite post The Conjuring 2 but The Nun was appreciated by none, get it? Sorry. Five years later, we’re presented with a sequel with the hopes that it would be worth a watch.
The Nun 2 Maybe An Exciting An Sequel!
The official teaser for The Nun 2 hasn’t released online even if it is playing with other horror films like The Boogeyman and The Blackening. As the film is a direct sequel of The Nun, actress Taissa Farmiga returning as Sister Irene. The titular character once again being played by Bonnie Aarons is also returning. The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It director Michael Caves will be at the helm of affairs and he has provided us an update on Sister Irene and the adventure that awaits her in the sequel:
“She’s living this anonymous life in this convent in Italy,” Chaves revealed to the outlet. “She had this traumatic experience, this huge adventure, and now she wants to live the life of service.” Valak has now set her sights on Irene’s friend Maurice, who is played by Jonas Bloquet.
Caves further added, “Maurice made his way to France and he’s working at this boarding school as kind of a handyman,” the director detailed. “He has a friendship and a flirtation with one of the teachers there, and you can see him starting to mature, so that’s where our characters start out. But we know from the first film that there’s something terrible inside of him, that Valak escaped within him, and events pull Irene back on this collision course with her old friend.”
He concluded with, “Anyone who’s a fan of it knows the timeline and this is definitely part of the timeline,” Chaves confirmed. “There’s a lot of cool stuff in it. I honestly cannot wait until it comes out so I can just unload all the little Easter eggs that we’ve peppered through the movie.”
Check out the first look of The Nun II, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly:
The Nun II is scheduled to release on September 8th 2023.
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