After more than a decade of haunting the screens, The Conjuring universe is coming to a close this fall with the release of the fourth mainline feature film in the franchise, The Conjuring: Last Rites — at least for now.
The film once again stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren, the paranormal investigators and demonologists whose real-life supernatural experiences have shaped the cinematic universe's stories since the first film's release. In addition to the returning stars, James Wan also returns for Last Rites to executive produce, continuing to shape the film and wider universe as he has done since the beginning.
Ahead of the film's release, Collider's Perri Nemiroff interviewed Wan about bringing the franchise to a close, although the executive producer teases that this isn't necessarily the end of the universe forever, as there is still plenty more from the Warrens' cases to explore. Wan also discusses why now is the right time to at least bring Phase 1 of The Conjuring universe to a close, pinpoints the scene from the movies that he feels captures the emotional heart of the franchise, and teases director Rob Savage's Other Mommy, an adaptation of the bestselling novel Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman.
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