The Conjuring Stars React to Franchise’s Future Plans

The Conjuring: Final Rites stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga have shared their ideas on the way forward for the horror film universe. The 2025 movie is the fourth installment within the flagship Conjuring franchise (which has additionally spawned the spinoff franchises Annabelle and The Nun), through which the celebs play real-life demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren.

The upcoming The Conjuring: Final Rites, which debuts on September 5, has been promoted as the ultimate installment within the franchise, to the purpose that the trailers promise that viewers will discover out why the case tailored by the film was the Warrens’ final. Nonetheless, that supposed grand finale might not transform the case in any case.

Throughout a latest interview with The Hollywood Reporter, New Line president and CCO Richard Brener mentioned that “that is the final of what we name section one” and that “we’re hopeful that we will make extra,” although “section two is TBD.“

In an interview with ScreenRant‘s Tatiana Hullender whereas selling The Conjuring: Final Rites, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga shared their reactions to the announcement, which Wilson says he had not heard about till that day. The celebrities revealed that they each approached Final Rites with the understanding that it might be the concluding chapter within the Warrens’ story.

Neither of them is aware of what Wilson refers to because the “grand plan” for the franchise, although he urged that “we may go on“ as a result of the real-life Warrens lived properly past their fifties.

Nonetheless, Farmiga had a way more finite response, saying that “so far as we all know, we hung up the rosaries“ and suggesting that new installments not bear the Conjuring title. Learn the actors’ full feedback beneath:

Vera Farmiga: I really like all of the hypothesis!

Patrick Wilson: I find it irresistible. Like, Part One? I’ve by no means heard that earlier than it was talked about at present. I do not know. It is so laborious. I can’t realistically separate me and Vera from The Conjuring, so I do not know what which means. In the event that they went off and did The Conjuring film with out us, I do not even know what to say to that!

Vera Farmiga: Identify it one thing else.

Patrick Wilson: All I do know is that is the tip of our journey proper now, and that is how we approached this. It is positively the rightful strategy to finish this collection that we created proper now.

I imply, certain, we may go on. We’re in our 50s, and Lorraine lived into her 90s whereas Ed was in his 70s, so we’re nonetheless round. There’s that, however I do not know what which means. There are such a lot of different questions which can be above our pay grade and actually our duty. We’re not creators, and we’re not producers on this. So, we do not know some grand plan about which we’re withholding info.

Vera Farmiga: Completely. So far as we all know, we hung up the rosaries. The crucifix is again on the wall, and that is it. Our flashlights have run out of battery.

What Different Conjuring 4 Solid Members Have Stated About The Franchise’s Future

Throughout a separate interview with ScreenRant, different members of the solid of The Conjuring: Final Rites chimed in with their ideas on the franchise persevering with past section one.

Mia Tomlinson (who performs Ed and Lorraine’s daughter Judy Warren, a personality beforehand portrayed at totally different ages by Sterling Jerins and Mckenna Grace) mentioned that she’d “love to come back again” in any future installments, whereas Madison Lawlor (who performs Younger Lorraine) urged a prequel the place “Lorraine first begins getting in contact with these emotions.”

Orion Smith (who performs Younger Ed) added that “they have not finished Amityville but” and seconded the thought of a prequel, which may “discover their characters from the angle of being much less skilled and figuring issues out as they go.” Learn the solid’s full feedback beneath:

Mia Tomlinson: Let’s promote that. I might love to come back again to work with Ben [Hardy, who plays Judy’s boyfriend Tony] and see extra creepy stuff. Let’s do it!

Madison Lawlor: I haven’t got an awesome particular reply to [what Warren cases should be made into new movies], however there are such a lot of circumstances that I might like to see how they’re interpreted nonetheless. They’ve simply finished a lot, and their work is so prolific.

Orion Smith: They have not finished Amityville but. Ed and Lorraine did examine that, and so they had been there for somewhat bit. I do not know if that will work totally with the timeline, however I believe essentially the most attention-grabbing factor for me could be to discover their characters from the angle of being much less skilled and figuring issues out as they go. That might be such a cool factor to discover.

Madison Lawlor: Yeah. I believe I might like to discover when Lorraine first begins getting in contact with these emotions and what that journey’s like for her. I think about it might be very laborious to seek out your footing, and really complicated too… We’ve not heard something [from New Line], however yeah, it is positively attention-grabbing.

Orion Smith: For me, simply having a fingerprint on this film and being part of this world is already such a present, and it is so thrilling. If there are any spinoffs, I am not going to say no, however that is already sufficient. That is already so unimaginable, and I am simply grateful to be part of it.

It’s value noting that, whereas there’s not a full Conjuring film adapting the “Amityville Horror” case, through which Ed and Lorraine Warren had been concerned, the case was featured within the prolonged opening sequence of The Conjuring 2, which in any other case coated the case of the Enfield Poltergeist.

What This Means For The Conjuring Franchise

Finally, even when there’s a section 2 that includes extra Conjuring motion pictures after Final Rites, it appears doubtless that the franchise will take Farmiga’s suggestion and keep away from presenting extra installments from the flagship department of the franchise, as a substitute persevering with to provide new spinoff franchises.

There’s already a precedent for spinoffs performing properly even with out the Warrens, as a result of the highest-grossing film within the franchise forward of the debut of The Conjuring: Final Rites is 2018’s The Nun. Nonetheless, except a prequel about younger Ed and Lorraine is mounted, this method would make it unlikely that any solid members from the brand new installment would return.