‘The Conjuring 4’ in the Works at New Line with ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ Writer (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter

New Line is summoning much paranormal scares, hiring David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick to write The Conjuring 4, the adjacent installment successful the juggernaut $2 billion The Conjuring Universe. 

Johnson-McGoldrick is simply a Conjuring veteran, having penned The Conjuring 2 and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, the second of which opened astatine No. 1 astatine the container bureau successful 2021 and pushed the franchise to implicit $2 cardinal worldwide. 

Returning to nutrient are James Wan and Peter Safran, the filmmaking squad down each movie in the Conjuring Universe, including the eighth installment The Nun 2, presently shooting successful France. 

The Conjuring films are based connected the real-life lawsuit files of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, though the nonstop lawsuit for new installment is being secret. 

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga person portrayed the Warrens successful the 3 erstwhile movies, arsenic good arsenic successful spinoff Annabelle Comes Home. The duo are expected to reprise their roles, though nary deals are made currently.

Conjuring has been scarily bully for New Line. The archetypal movie was released successful summertime 2013 arsenic a counterprogramming maneuver against large tentpoles. The determination worked, arsenic it ended up making $320 cardinal worldwide against a fund of $20 million, becoming 1 of the astir profitable fearfulness films successful past and birthing a franchise.

Johnson-McGoldrick has a agelong past with Warner Bros., dating backmost to penning the publication to the 2009 fearfulness flick Orphan. He aboriginal wrote Red Riding Hood and Wrath of the Titans for the studio. More precocious helium worked connected Warners’ Aquaman, which grossed implicit $1 billion, and wrote the sequel, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, which volition unfastened successful December 2023. Warners intelligibly likes the chopped of his jib, arsenic it besides hired him to present a draught of a sequel to Flash, the DC movie that doesn’t unfastened until June 23, 2023.

The writer, who started his vocation arsenic a accumulation adjunct connected Frank Darabont’s Shawshank Redemption and past worked 5 years arsenic the filmmaker’s idiosyncratic assistant, is repped by CAA and lawyer Howard Abramson astatine Behr Abramson.

A erstwhile mentation misstated the rubric for the upcoming Aquaman sequel.