While director James Wan has been quite busy at the helm of Aquaman for Warner Bros. Pictures, he’s also still in charge of shepherding the constantly growing horror universe of The Conjuring. But he took another role behind the scenes of the upcoming The Conjuring 2 spin-off The Nun.
Director Corin Hardy revealed that James Wan took the time to be the second unit director on The Nun for part of the production. Find out what the filmmaker was recruited to shoot below.
“Very excitingly, James Wan was my second unit director in a little bit of additional photography,” Hardy told Entertainment Weekly. “…I said, ‘I want to do all of this, but if we’re going to do it, we really need to run two units.’ James is a full-on, hands-on guy and he was like, ‘Anything I can do of service!’ It was like, ‘I really want to take you up on that.’ So, there were nights when he was shooting a section in the forest and I was shooting interiors.”
The fact that James Wan had enough time to take on this responsibility while taking care of both Aquaman and developing a series adaptation of Swamp Thing for the forthcoming DC Universe streaming service is impressive, to say the least. But it probably wasn’t a difficult decision for him to make since The Nun debuted in his own film The Conjuring 2.
Written by Gary Dauberman (Annabelle) and starring Taissa Farmiga, Demián Bichir, Bonnie Aarons, Charlotte Hope, Ingrid Bisu, Jonas Bloquet, and Jonny Coyne, The Nun is set in 1950s Romania, within a real-world monastery located in Transylvania.
The Nun follows “a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows…sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.” The movie marks the fifth film in the franchise Wan launched with The Conjuring, based on the real-world case files of supernaturalists Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Get ready for some sinful scares when The Nun visits theaters beginning Sept 7.
Source: EW
