{"id":549614,"date":"2026-07-14T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549614\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:06:08","slug":"the-conjuring-prequel-casts-its-young-ed-and-loraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549614\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conjuring Prequel Casts Its Young Ed and Loraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-conjuring-first-communion\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-conjuring-first-communion_1\" data-tag=\"the-conjuring-first-communion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Conjuring: First Communion<\/a> has found two actors to fill the shoes of Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/garrett-wareing\/\" id=\"auto-tag_garrett-wareing_1\" data-tag=\"garrett-wareing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Wareing<\/a> will star as Ed Warren, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/amanda-fix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_amanda-fix_1\" data-tag=\"amanda-fix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Fix<\/a> will play Lorraine Warren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNew Line has set a date of Sept. 10, 2027 for the movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Conjuring prequel is set years before the 2013\u2019s Conjuring, which took place in 1971. James Wan helmed the original film, and Wilson and Farmiga retired from the roles as paranormal investigators with last year\u2019s Conjuring: Last Rites, which grossed nearly $500 million globally. New Line was keen to keep the franchise going, as it stands as  highest grossing horror series ever with $2.7 billion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe new installment has Rodrigue Huart directing from a script by Richard Naing &amp; Ian Goldberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWareing stars on the Netflix show Ransom Canyon, and appeared in Lionsgate\u2019s Stephen King movie The Long Walk. He broke in a decade ago with Independence Day: Resurgence and also appeared on the Netflix drama\u00a0Manifest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFix stars in the upcoming Plan B film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, and is on Duffer Brothers\u2019 Netflix series\u00a0Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen. She previously was in North of Normal,\u00a0Daisy Jones &amp; the Six,\u00a0High School, and\u00a0Orphan Black: Echoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe new Conjuring movie is produced by Peter Safran, with John Rickard, Natalia Safran and Romel Adam executive producing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWareing is repped by 23 Management Group, WME, and Myman Greenspan Fineman Fox Rosenberg &amp; Light. Fix is repped by Link Entertainment and Black Bear Pictures.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Conjuring: First Communion has found two actors to fill the shoes of Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[232873,93,17346,61,60,270,124755],"class_list":["post-549614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amanda-fix","tag-entertainment","tag-garrett-wareing","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-the-conjuring-first-communion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}