We Could Have Had an Avengers: Endgame-Style Conjuring Universe Send-Off

The Conjuring Universe is heading into its endgame—September’s final Conjuring film is literally subtitled Last Rites—but it won’t be borrowing a page from Avengers: Endgame to assemble all the monsters we’ve met in its movies since 2013. However, and amazingly, that was actually briefly considered at one point. In a new Entertainment Weekly feature that highlights The Conjuring: Last Rites but also serves as a look back at the franchise as a whole, Last Rites director Michael Chaves—who also helmed The Curse of La Llorona, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and The Nun II—spoke about the brainstorming sessions that informed the fourth Conjuring film starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as Lorraine and Ed Warren. “Even as we were developing it, we were throwing a bunch of ideas out: ‘How shamelessly big can we make it?’ ‘How epic can we make it?’ ‘Is this the culmination of all the demons coming to face them?” Chaves told EW. The magazine added that “he admits the team brief ... Read full article.