It’s sort of crazy that when you think of James Wan you think of The Conjuring and Fast 7, when people really should be bowing for films such as SAW and Insidious, not to mention Dead Silence and Death Sentence.
With Insidious, franchise wasn’t the plan, but it was such a huge success that it spawned two sequels, the next (directed by writer and star Leigh Whannell) in theaters June 5, 2015.
Whannell spoke to EW about the third film, starring Lin Shaye, where he reveals that it sets up an entire new universe (the new buzzword since The Avengers) for the film.
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“This third film really sets up the Insidious universe to go on, if it was successful enough,” says the filmmaker, who also plays the Elise-assisting Specs in the horror series. “Now you have Elise, the central character, as a medium, and she has her two kind of bumbling assistants, and you have all these years between the third film and the first movie: You’ve got 2009, 2010. Great years! I can imagine [it] being set up as almost a James Bond-esque franchise where Elise goes into different situations with different families, and is fighting or defeating these different demons. As far as it actually happening? I’m not sure yet. I’m actually quite superstitious about films [before they are] released. I always have been, but that’s gone into overdrive now I’m a director.”
The prequel to James Wan’s Insidious, set before the haunting of the Lambert family, reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl (Stefanie Scott) who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
