She’s Back! THE NUN II Trailer Features More Demonic Scares From Valak

By Michelle McCue | July 6, 2023

Guess who’s back, back again, Valak’s back… tell a friend.

The first trailer dropped on Thursday for the THE NUN II, in cinemas on September 8.

Michael Chaves (“The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It”) directs, from a screenplay by Ian Goldberg & Richard Naing (“Eli,” “The Autopsy of Jane Doe”) and Akela Cooper (“M3GAN,” “Malignant”), with a story by Cooper, based on characters created by James Wan & Gary Dauberman.

New Line Cinema brings you the horror thriller “The Nun II,” the next chapter in the story of “The Nun,” the highest grossing entry in the juggernaut $2 billion “The Conjuring” Universe.

1956 – France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading. The sequel to the worldwide smash hit follows Sister Irene as she once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun.

Taissa Farmiga (“The Nun,” “The Gilded Age”) returns as Sister Irene, joined by Jonas Bloquet (“Tirailleurs,” “The Nun”), Storm Reid (“The Last of Us,” “The Suicide Squad”), Anna Popplewell (“Fairytale,” “The Chronicles of Narnia” trilogy) and Bonnie Aarons (reprising her role from “The Nun”), surrounded by an ensemble cast of international talent.

The Safran Company’s Peter Safran and Atomic Monster’s James Wan produce, continuing their collaboration as filmmakers on all of the previous “Conjuring” films. “The Nun II” is executive produced by Richard Brener, Dave Neustadter, Victoria Palmeri, Gary Dauberman, Michael Clear, Judson Scott and Michael Polaire. Joining Chaves behind the camera are director of photography Tristan Nyby (“The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,” “The Dark and the Wicked”), production designer Stéphane Cressend (“Les Vedettes,” “The French Dispatch”), editor Gregory Plotkin (2022’s “Scream,” “Get Out”), visual effects producer Sophie A. Leclerc (“Finch,” “Lucy”) and costume designer Agnès Béziers (“Oxygen,” “The Breitner Commando”), with composer Marco Beltrami (2022’s “Scream,” ”Venom: Let There Be Carnage”) providing the score.

“The Conjuring” Universe is the highest grossing horror franchise in history with $2+ billion worldwide. Globally, four of “The Conjuring” Universe titles have earned more than $300 million worldwide each (“The Nun,” $366 million; “The Conjuring 2,” $322 million; “The Conjuring,” $320 million; “Annabelle: Creation,” $307 million), and all seven have each grossed more than $200 million. “The Nun” is the top-earning film in the franchise, with more than $366 million worldwide.

THE NUN grossed $117.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $248.1 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $365.6 million, against a production budget of $22 million, becoming the highest-grossing film in the franchise. (Box Office Mojo)

Director Michael Chaves told Entertainment Weekly in a recent interview:

Actress Bonnie Aarons, who originated the role of the Demon Nun in 2016’s James Wan-directed The Conjuring 2 and reprised the role in Corin Hardy’s The Nun, once more returns to inhabit the habit.

“Bonnie’s incredible,” notes Chaves. “She can really turn it on, she really knows what’s scary, and she’s just so easy. It’s not like she’s always in this dark Nun persona, she’s not the Method Nun.”

And, yes, the Demon Nun brings along some of her visage-less compadres from the previous movie.

“The faceless nuns are back,” confirms Chaves. “That was a fan favorite and also became part of the marketing campaign of the first film. So they’re definitely back in the film. I don’t want to spoil anything else [about them].”

https://ew.com/movies/the-nun-2-taissa-farmiga-first-look/

Copyright: © 2023 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures (Center) TAISSA FARMIGA as Sister Irene in New Line Cinema’s horror thriller “The Nun II,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Courtesy of New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures

Check out Michael Haffner’s THE NUN review HERE as well as his “7 Films to Watch Alongside THE NUN” that he calls, “a world of religious horror filled with nasty nuns, satanic spirits, and malevolent monasteries.” https://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2018/09/7-films-prepare-nun/

Watch THE NUN streaming on Max. https://play.max.com/movie/81363776-8629-4c4a-a54f-9396d653e89b

New Line Cinema presents an Atomic Monster / Safran Company production, “The Nun II,” distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is set to open in North America on September 8, 2023 and internationally beginning 6 September, 2023.