Leading up to the release of Lights Out, we spoke to director David F. Sandberg who is currently hard at work at his sophomore effort, Annabelle 2, the followup to the Conjuring spinoff that he hopes will be the “Godfather II of creepy doll movies.”
We also broke the news that the film’s protagonist is going to be a nun who is worried that her orphans are becoming prey to an evil entity.
The 5th Wave‘s Talitha Bateman has been cast at the film’s lead orphan, says Deadline, who also revealed the full extent of the film’s plot:
Written by Gary Dauberman, the story follows a dollmaker and his wife who, 20 years after the death of their little girl, welcome a nun and several orphan girls into their home. Unfortunately, the new guests soon become the targets of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle. Bateman is playing one of the orphans taken into the dollmaker’s home.
Miranda Otto (The Two Towers, Return of the King, What Lies Beneath) was recently cast as the “disfigured” wife of the dollmaker.
Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2 director James Wan is producing with Peter Safran.
