The Conjuring: Final Rites stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga have shared their ideas on the way forward for the horror film universe. The 2025 movie is the fourth installment within the flagship Conjuring franchise (which has additionally spawned the spinoff franchises Annabelle and The Nun), through which the celebs play real-life demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren.
The upcoming The Conjuring: Final Rites, which debuts on September 5, has been promoted as the ultimate installment within the franchise, to the purpose that the trailers promise that viewers will discover out why the case tailored by the film was the Warrens’ final. Nonetheless, that supposed grand finale could not become the case in spite of everything.
Throughout a latest interview with The Hollywood Reporter, New Line president and CCO Richard Brener mentioned that “this is the last of what we call phase one” and that “we are hopeful that we can make more,” although “phase two is TBD.”
In an interview with ScreenRant’s Tatiana Hullender whereas selling The Conjuring: Final Rites, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga shared their reactions to the announcement, which Wilson says he had not heard about till that day. The celebrities revealed that they each approached Final Rites with the understanding that it could be the concluding chapter within the Warrens’ story.
Neither of them is aware of what Wilson refers to because the “grand plan” for the franchise, although he recommended that “we could go on” as a result of the real-life Warrens lived properly past their fifties.
Nonetheless, Farmiga had a way more finite response, saying that “as far as we know, we hung up the rosaries” and suggesting that new installments not bear the Conjuring title. Learn the actors’ full feedback beneath:
Vera Farmiga: I like all of the hypothesis!
Patrick Wilson: I find it irresistible. Like, Section One? I’ve by no means heard that earlier than it was talked about right this moment. I do not know. It is so laborious. I can not realistically separate me and Vera from The Conjuring, so I do not know what meaning. In the event that they went off and did The Conjuring film with out us, I do not even know what to say to that!
Vera Farmiga: Title it one thing else.
Patrick Wilson: All I do know is that is the top of our journey proper now, and that is how we approached this. It is undoubtedly the rightful solution to finish this sequence that we created proper now.
I imply, positive, we may go on. We’re in our 50s, and Lorraine lived into her 90s whereas Ed was in his 70s, so we’re nonetheless round. There’s that, however I do not know what meaning. There are such a lot of different questions which can be above our pay grade and actually our duty. We’re not creators, and we’re not producers on this. So, we do not know some grand plan about which we’re withholding data.
Vera Farmiga: Completely. So far as we all know, we hung up the rosaries. The crucifix is again on the wall, and that is it. Our flashlights have run out of battery.
What Different Conjuring 4 Solid Members Have Mentioned About The Franchise’s Future
Throughout a separate interview with ScreenRant, different members of the solid of The Conjuring: Final Rites chimed in with their ideas on the franchise persevering with past section one.
Mia Tomlinson (who performs Ed and Lorraine’s daughter Judy Warren, a personality beforehand portrayed at completely different ages by Sterling Jerins and Mckenna Grace) mentioned that she’d “love to come back” in any future installments, whereas Madison Lawlor (who performs Younger Lorraine) recommended a prequel the place “Lorraine first starts getting in touch with these feelings.”
Orion Smith (who performs Younger Ed) added that “they haven’t done Amityville yet” and seconded the thought of a prequel, which may “explore their characters from the perspective of being less experienced and figuring things out as they go.” Learn the solid’s full feedback beneath:
Mia Tomlinson: Let’s promote that. I might love to return again to work with Ben [Hardy, who plays Judy’s boyfriend Tony] and see extra creepy stuff. Let’s do it!
Madison Lawlor: I haven’t got a terrific particular reply to [what Warren cases should be made into new movies], however there are such a lot of circumstances that I might like to see how they’re interpreted nonetheless. They’ve simply performed a lot, and their work is so prolific.
Orion Smith: They have not performed Amityville but. Ed and Lorraine did examine that, they usually have been there for just a little bit. I do not know if that will work absolutely with the timeline, however I believe probably the most attention-grabbing factor for me can be to discover their characters from the attitude of being much less skilled and figuring issues out as they go. That will be such a cool factor to discover.
Madison Lawlor: Yeah. I believe I might like to discover when Lorraine first begins getting in contact with these emotions and what that journey’s like for her. I think about it could be very laborious to search out your footing, and really complicated too… We’ve not heard something [from New Line], however yeah, it is undoubtedly attention-grabbing.
Orion Smith: For me, simply having a fingerprint on this film and being part of this world is already such a present, and it is so thrilling. If there are any spinoffs, I am not going to say no, however that is already sufficient. That is already so unimaginable, and I am simply grateful to be part of it.
It’s value noting that, whereas there’s not a full Conjuring film adapting the “Amityville Horror” case, through which Ed and Lorraine Warren have been concerned, the case was featured within the prolonged opening sequence of The Conjuring 2, which in any other case lined the case of the Enfield Poltergeist.
What This Means For The Conjuring Franchise
Ed and Lorraine Warren wanting distressed in a home in The Conjuring Final Rites
Finally, even when there’s a section 2 that includes extra Conjuring films after Final Rites, it appears doubtless that the franchise will take Farmiga’s suggestion and keep away from presenting extra installments from the flagship department of the franchise, as an alternative persevering with to provide new spinoff franchises.
There’s already a precedent for spinoffs performing properly even with out the Warrens, as a result of the highest-grossing film within the franchise forward of the debut of The Conjuring: Final Rites is 2018’s The Nun. Nonetheless, except a prequel about younger Ed and Lorraine is mounted, this method would make it unlikely that any solid members from the brand new installment would return.
The Conjuring: Final Rites
Launch Date
September 5, 2025
Runtime
135 Minutes
Director
Michael Chaves
Writers
David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, Ian B. Goldberg, Richard Naing, Carey Hayes, Chad Hayes, James Wan
Mia Tomlinson
Judy Warren
