The Nun 2 Blesses Storm Reid with Lead Role

Horror followers could keep in mind the beautiful superb movie The Nun from again in 2018. As a part of the massively profitable Conjuring universe, the movie was a prequel spinoff about Valak, the demonic nun from The Conjuring 2 as performed by Bonnie Aarons. Though the franchise has shifted focus again to the Warrens and Annabelle with the previous few installments, a sequel for The Nun has been quietly within the works.

On Friday, The Hollywood Reporter broke that Storm Reid has been solid in The Nun 2 as one in all its leads. Previously, Reid starred in Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time movie and The Suicide Squad, together with HBO’s Euphoria collection. Her future roles embody Missing, the standalone sequel to 2018’s Searching, and he or she’ll be taking part in Riley in HBO Max’s upcoming adaptation of The Last of Us. As far as horror movies go, she’s had some earlier expertise, as she was within the fairly good Invisible Man movie again in 2020.

Details on Reid’s function, and the movie typically, are nonetheless within the unholy darkish. But The Nun 2 is alleged to nonetheless be set within the Fifties like the unique movie, and can reportedly carry again Taissa Farmiga’s returning as Sister Irene from that film. Directing the sequel is Michael Chaves, who’s turning into a Conjuring veteran: he beforehand directed 2019’s The Curse of La Llorna and 2021’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. Filming is alleged to presently be going down in France, and The Nun 2 is scheduled to launch on September 8, 2023.

Along with Valak, Warner Bros. plans on doing a derivative movie for fellow Conjuring 2 baddie the Crooked Man. It’s been a number of years since we’ve heard something concerning that movie, which was supposedly backburnered as soon as The Nun accelerated manufacturing after a much bigger viewers response. Given how these movies do on the field workplace, and the way it appears they make these so rapidly, it wouldn’t be shocking if we hear extra about that movie pretty quickly.

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