{"id":125754,"date":"2025-09-09T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125754\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:29:07","slug":"james-wan-may-exit-the-conjuring-without-bigger-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125754\/","title":{"rendered":"James Wan may exit The Conjuring without bigger check"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Conjuring franchise just released its Last Rites<\/a>, but producer and original creator James Wan wants better rights going forward. Puck News\u2018 Matt Belloni reports<\/a> that Wan is prepared to walk away from the franchise and any future spin-offs if Warner Bros. doesn\u2019t cut him a bigger check. Wan only directed the first film<\/a> and its 2016 sequel<\/a>, but he\u2019s remained a producer and important creative partner on the original franchise\u2019s subsequent installments, as well as all three spin-off Annabelle<\/a> movies, both installments of The Nun<\/a>, and spin-off-of-a-spin-off The Curse Of La Llorona<\/a>. (Minor spoiler warning for Last Rites, but Wan even had a cameo in one of its final scenes.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

This might be the end of the road for his involvement, however. Currently, Warner Bros.\u2019 deal requires the studio to credit Wan\u2019s production company, Atomic Monster<\/a>, on all future Conjuring films as well as a planned TV series. Yes, Last Rites was positioned as Ed and Lorraine Warren\u2019s final outing, but, as Puck notes, it\u2019s currently cleaning up at the box office<\/a>. With that in mind, it\u2019s not all that surprising that Warner Bros. is reportedly already planning a prequel, not to mention all the other ghosts and demons that could be spun-off from that lucrative original haunting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Atomic Monster\u2019s CAA rep Bryan Lourd has reportedly been haunting the Warner Bros. lot in kind. Belloni writes that Lourd has made \u201cmultiple trips\u201d to negotiate on Wan\u2019s behalf. He reportedly made an initial ask of 50% for all future movies, before lowering it to 25% for the first follow-up film and 50% after that. Warner Bros. is apparently still hesitant, prompting Wan\u2019s threat to walk.<\/p>\n

How much the producer\u2019s exit would actually affect future films is up for debate. Sources for Warner Bros. claim his involvement in recent films has been \u201climited,\u201d with Atomic Monster\u2019s Michael Clear and Natalia Safran (the wife of DC Studio co-CEO Peter Safran) taking on more responsibilities in his stead. On the other hand, Puck reports that multiple non-WB sources say Wan is still \u201cinstrumental\u201d in the creative direction of the franchise and continues to make \u201ckey contributions to the mythology and scare sequences that have made the movies so popular.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s The Conjuring: Last Rites and thank god it’s over<\/a>This The Conjuring: Last Rites teaser is ready to wrap this sucker up<\/a><\/p>\n

Wan\u2019s exit would be a big change for the franchise either way, but perhaps not an unwelcome one. \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites solidifies The Conjuring franchise as the Fast & Furious of horror movies: A conservative, Christian, family-oriented, spin-off and sequel-laden series of adventures that lose the plot and reinvest in the audience\u2019s affection for its familiar beats and cornball leads,\u201d Jacob Oller wrote in his review of the latest film<\/a> for The A.V. Club. Maybe it\u2019s best for both Wan and the franchise to exorcise themselves and try something new.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Conjuring franchise just released its Last Rites, but producer and original creator James Wan wants better rights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-125754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}