After the success of Saw, it seemed it might have been a bit of a fluke for co-creator and director James Wan to have created something so tense and popular. His follow-ups, Death Sentence and Dead Silence, were largely ignored, but this year’s Insidious has been a huge success, and on a budget to box office ratio, is the biggest movie of the year so far (it cost $1.5 million to make, and has grossed over $75 million).
Now he’s planning his next move, with Variety reporting that he’s set to take on The Conjuring for New Line as his next project. Wan is currently in negotiations to direct the haunted house tale, which chronicles the allegedly true 30-year-old story of the Perron family and their farm house in Rhode Island. They claimed they ‘lived among the dead’, with spirits both friendly and sinister inhabiting their house. It’s based on a screenplay by Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes.
No shooting date has yet been set.