Storm Reid was cast last week as the lead in The Nun 2, the next instalment in The Conjuring film series. Now, Deadline confirms that The Nun’s Taissa Farmiga will be back for more. The release date for the horror movie is set for September 2023. Valak, the terrifying nun demon who terrorised Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring 2, had her beginnings in The Nun. Farmiga played the lead role of Sister Irene, a novice nun dispatched to Romania in 1952 alongside a priest to look into the mysterious death of a fellow nun there.
Sister Irene and the other characters face terrifying ordeals at the hands of Valak the Demon while they are there. In the film’s conclusion, the demon appears to have been vanquished, but any follower of The Conjuring canon will tell you that this is far from the truth. The planned sequel’s narrative is currently under wraps, although it’s been speculated that the movie will take place in 1950s France. Farmiga has experience with scary movies. In addition to her role in The Nun, she has also been featured in several instalments of American Horror Story. In addition to her part in The Final Girls, she has also appeared in 6 Years and The Bling Ring.
Farmiga is now filming the second season of her HBO blockbuster The Gilded Age in which she stars. There will be a sequel to the 2018 film The Nun, making it the ninth instalment overall. The 2018 horror picture is the highest-grossing episode in The Conjuring franchise, earning $365 million worldwide, so the greenlighting of a sequel comes as no surprise. The Conjuring and its sequels have earned over $2 billion globally, making it the most successful horror film franchise of all time.
Really, the only question was how long it would be before a sequel was released. Michael Chaves, who helmed The Curse of La Llorona and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, is returning to the helm for The Nun 2. The script for the sequel, written by the malicious Akela Cooper and now under revision by The Autopsy of Jane Doe’s Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing. Peter Safran of The Safran Company and James Wan of Atomic Monster Productions will be producing the sequel.
While Michael Clear and Gary Dauberman serve as executive producers for Atomic Monster, Judson Scott will also contribute to the production team. Production on the sequel to The Nun will start this month, with an anticipated release date of September 8, 2023.