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The Next Installment in the ‘Purge’ Film Franchise Arrives in Theaters Summer 2020
We’re not getting a new Purge movie this year but we’ve learned that the franchise’s fifth installment is coming *next* year, with Universal setting a July 10, 2020 date this week! Interestingly, it will open against Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters which shares the exact same release. Will one of them move?
At this time, the film is untitled and we don’t yet have any details, though it’s worth noting that with four films and a TV series under the franchise’s belt, it seems creator James DeMonaco has his sights set on calling it a day in the near future. Possibly even with the 2020 film.
“I have [the next installment] in my head,” DeMonaco recently told EW. “I think I’m going to write it. I think it’s a great way to end it all. We want to end it all, I think, in this one, and I’m very excited. When I came up with the idea and pitched it to everybody, they seemed psyched, and I think it will be a really cool ending, how we take this one home.”
The First Purge has damn sure proven that the franchise is still incredibly profitable on the big screen, but one has to wonder how much more can possibly be milked from the concept. The fifth film promising to end the bloody experiment might be just what the franchise needs to go out with a serious bang at the box office, and put asses in the seats one more time.
We had learned two weeks ago that a sixth installment in Legendary’s 10-years-strong Monsterverse is in the works, and The Hollywood Reporter brings us the latest update tonight.
The site reports that Adam Wingard, who directed both Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong, will NOT be returning to direct the upcoming follow-up to Godzilla x Kong.
THR notes, “The parting of ways is described as amicable and stemming from timing issues. The door remains open for a future return, per insiders.”
Wingard is instead returning to his roots with the upcoming Onslaught, an action-thriller for A24 that’s said to be more in the vein of his earlier movies You’re Next and The Guest.
Dave Callaham (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) is writing the upcoming sixth movie in the Monsterverse franchise. We have no idea if it’ll be a follow-up to Adam Wingard’s two movies, or if it will take the film franchise down a new path. Stay tuned.
Beginning with the Godzilla film in 2014 and continuing through 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, and most recently the record-breaking Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the Monsterverse has accumulated over $2B at the global box office and expanded into the highly successful event series, Legendary’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters for Apple TV+. We recently learned that “Monarch” is getting a second season, with more Monsterverse spinoff shows being planned at Apple TV+.
“Apple TV+ has struck a new multi-series deal with Legendary Entertainment, which includes multiple spinoff series based on the franchise,” the recent press release had stated.
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