James Wan may have branched out into blockbuster filmmaking and found massive success with Furious 7 and Aquaman, which made him the only person that isn’t James Cameron to have directed two unrelated movies that each earned over a billion dollars at the box office, but the filmmaker’s first love has and always will be the horror genre.
After rising to mainstream prominence as the co-creator of Saw alongside Leigh Whannell, the duo went on to collaborate once more on the Insidious franchise, with Wan directing the first two installments. He’s also the architect behind The Conjuring Universe having been heavily involved in the creative process for all of the various sequels and spinoffs.
Not only that, but Wan has original genre-bending horror Malignant releasing next year, and is also currently attached to tackle a new version of Frankenstein. Meanwhile, it was announced several months ago that...
After rising to mainstream prominence as the co-creator of Saw alongside Leigh Whannell, the duo went on to collaborate once more on the Insidious franchise, with Wan directing the first two installments. He’s also the architect behind The Conjuring Universe having been heavily involved in the creative process for all of the various sequels and spinoffs.
Not only that, but Wan has original genre-bending horror Malignant releasing next year, and is also currently attached to tackle a new version of Frankenstein. Meanwhile, it was announced several months ago that...
- 10/26/2020
- by Scott Campbell
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