Exterior of Marvel, a lot of the “cinematic universes” that studios have tried to create have didn’t catch on, however one which has been surprisingly profitable is The Conjuring and its quite a few spinoffs. Followers will get the ultimate Conjuring film, The Conjuring: Final Rites, later this yr. However it’s going to occur and not using a main crossover that many followers have been seemingly anticipating, or no less than hoping, to see.
The final film within the Conjuring franchise, 2023’s The Nun II, contained two issues of relevance to the brand new movie. First, it starred Taissa Farmiga, the sister of Vera Farmiga, the co-star of the primary movies. Second, the film contained a post-credits scene with Vera and her Conjuring co-star Patrick Wilson, indicating a potential assembly between the 2 sisters on display screen.
Sadly, followers hoping for the sisters to crew up will likely be upset in Final Rites because it doesn’t occur. Michael Chaves, who directed each The Nun II and the brand new Conjuring movie, tells EW he needed to do extra with the characters, however sadly, it was just too sophisticated. He defined…
I used to be actually craving extra of a connection, to be completely trustworthy, between The Nun and the Warrens. It begins to really get into some tough authorized territory as a result of all these tales are primarily based on true tales.
Whereas how a lot of The Conjuring tales are “true” is actually a subject of debate, the films are primarily based on the experiences of the real-life Ed and Lorraine Warren. So drawing a connection between two characters the place none existed IRL was merely a step too far for the films. A minimum of if the franchise was going to maintain itself as near the official tales as potential. He continued…
It was one thing the place, even when it is a fictionalized relationship. Everybody simply favored the concept of preserving the core Conjuring tales as a lot true tales as potential.
Drawing connections between characters, probably even making the characters within the two franchises associated, as they’re in actual life, is precisely the kind of factor we’d anticipate from a cinematic universe of related motion pictures. Nonetheless, that’s the issue based on Chaves. At that time, it turns into the fiction of the films, and it appears everyone needs to carry on to the authenticity of the core tales. Chaves mentioned…
Should you lean an excessive amount of into this epic Sport of Thrones household connection, then it begins to decrease it slightly bit. It begins to drag away on the authenticity of the primary storyline, which is the place all of us netted out.
Hopefully, what the franchise could have misplaced in bigger connections is greater than made up with the authenticity that The Conjuring: Final Rites is searching for. We’ll discover out when the movie hits theaters in September.