‘The Nun’ Featurette: Building ‘The Conjuring’ Cinematic Universe
WhenThe Conjuringwas released in 2013, few people expected it to launch a whole cinematic universe with its own mythology and crossover characters. A sequel or two, maybe, as hit horror films are expected to make. But one that could rival the superhero universes? Blasphemy.
But eight years later and we’re four films into aConjuringcinematic universe, with even more to come in the future. And the latestThe Nunfeaturette takes us back to the beginning.
The Nun Featurette
“One of the things that occurred to all of us early on is, they have a superhero universe, why can’t we do that in the horror world?” Wan says in the featurette. “When we were making the firstConjuring, it became very apparent to us that there could be a bigger universe.”
The Conjuringspawned the spin-off filmAnnabellein 2014, which in turn gained its own sequelAnnabelle: Creationin 2017. And in between we hadThe Conjuring 2in 2016, which gave rise to the fan-favorite villain of the ghastly Nun. Which brings us to the upcomingThe Nun, the latest film release-wise, but the first chronologically.The Nuntakes place in 1952 Romania, when a Catholic priest and a novice are sent by the Vatican to investigate the mysterious suicide of a nun at the Câr?a Monastery.
“WithThe Nunwe’re going right back to where it all began,“The Nundirector Corin Hardy teases in the featurette.
Does this meanThe Nunplants the seeds for the rest ofThe Conjuringuniverse? Could we call this theCaptain America: The First AvengerofThe Conjuring-verse? Which makes me wonder if we’ll ever get an official title forThe Conjuringuniverse other than referring to it as “the one where Patrick Wilson has sideburns.” Not the Dark Universe. We knowthat one’s taken.
Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, and Jonas Bloquet star inThe Nun, which opens in theaters onSeptember 6, 2018.
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 verysouls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun
