We Could Have Had an Avengers: Endgame-Style Conjuring Universe Send-Off

The Conjuring Universe is heading into its endgame—September’s final Conjuring film is virtually subtitled Last Rites—but it won’t beryllium borrowing a leafage from Avengers: Endgame to assemble each the monsters we’ve met successful its movies since 2013. However, and amazingly, that was really concisely considered astatine 1 point.

In a caller Entertainment Weekly diagnostic that highlights The Conjuring: Last Rites but besides serves arsenic a look backmost astatine the franchise arsenic a whole, Last Rites manager Michael Chaves—who besides helmed The Curse of La Llorona, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and The Nun II—spoke astir the brainstorming sessions that informed the 4th Conjuring movie starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson arsenic Lorraine and Ed Warren.

“Even arsenic we were processing it, we were throwing a clump of ideas out: ‘How shamelessly large tin we marque it?’ ‘How epic tin we marque it?’ ‘Is this the culmination of each the demons coming to look them?” Chaves told EW. The mag added that “he admits the squad concisely entertained the thought of astir a twelve Doctor Strange portals opening to uncover each Conjuring entity assembled unneurotic for an endgame of sorts” earlier deciding to spell successful a much emotional, idiosyncratic direction.

Ok. We recognize that Lorraine and Ed’s enslaved is the bosom of the Conjuring series. These 2 person stuck unneurotic contempt being routinely imperiled by supernatural horrors galore. But ideate for conscionable a infinitesimal that bid creator James Wan, an enforcement shaper connected Last Rites, had decided to bid farewell to the Conjuring with a elephantine monsterpalooza?

The Nun and Annabelle would evidently beryllium starring the charge, but you could besides see the beasties who were introduced passim the bid arsenic imaginable spin-off characters that ne'er came to be, astir notably the Crooked Man from The Conjuring 2. While the movie was precise anxious to acceptable that script up, arsenic enforcement shaper Peter Safran tells EW, a stronger contender won retired successful the end.

“We thought the Crooked Man was fundamentally going to beryllium the Annabelle for Conjuring 2,” Safran told EW—but “when the audiences saw the movie, they wanted to cognize much astir the nun. That’s what they gravitated toward.”

The Crooked Man won’t beryllium returning for that not-to-be Endgame showdown that volition everlastingly unrecorded rent-free successful fearfulness fans’ minds, but Wan hasn’t fixed up completely. “I inactive person a movie successful my caput that I would hopefully emotion to get disconnected the crushed 1 day, but we’ll see,” helium told EW.

“I get fans that scope retired to maine each present and then, begging america to marque a Crooked Man movie. Just arsenic a fan, I would emotion to bash it 1 day, if I tin person the workplace to bash so.” We’re begging you now, James Wan: mega-monster crossover movie. You person the power! Make it happen!

The Conjuring: Last Rites hits theaters September 5. Head to EW to work crippled details and much astir the Conjuring Universe.

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