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Editor Turns Director for ‘The Haunting in Georgia’
Now that Ti West is off prepping The Innkeepers, Gold Circle Films has locked in Tom Elkins, an editor who has worked on such films as Wanted and The Da Vinci Code, to make his directorial debut with The Haunting in Georgia, their follow-up to the incredibly sh*tty The Haunting in Connecticut. Elkins was also the editor on Connecticut, and his boarding sets the movie on track for an August start, with casting under way. Written by David Coggeshall, Georgia centers on the true story of a young family imperiled by mysterious entities inhabiting their property in the rural South. How about making it SCARY this time? Please?
Prequel movie The Conjuring: First Communion is headed to theaters on September 10, 2027, and Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of the Dead) has joined the cast.
Deadline reports, “No word yet on the role to be played by Schweighöfer.”
Garrett Wareing (Ransom Canyon) and Amanda Fix (Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma) will play the young versions of Ed and Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring: First Communion.
Plot details remain under wraps at this time, but the upcoming prequel movie comes from director Rodrigue Huart, from a script by Richard Naing & Ian Goldberg.
It’s not certain if Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga will be appearing at all, though it seems the film will at least primarily focus on the young versions of their characters.
There are currently nine films in The Conjuring universe — The Conjuring, Annabelle, The Conjuring 2, Annabelle: Creation, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Nun 2, and last year’s The Conjuring: Last Rites. Matt Donato recently ranked every single movie in the hit saga, and you can read that ranking article right here.
A Conjuring Universe television series is allegedly also in the works.
Franchise producer Peter Safran previously said of The Conjuring Universe, “There’s so much more to it that we haven’t dug into. So the truth is, I think there are really exciting ways to go with both film and television, frankly. It would be incredibly satisfying. People have been on this journey with us for a dozen years now. I think they want more.”