While he waits for all the pieces to come together on the long-gestating reboot of The Crow, director Corin Hardy isn't simply hanging around drawing storyboards. He's accepted a new job, taking on the latest spin-off to emerge from James Wan's Conjuring films, The Nun.
Much like Annabelle, which grew out of the demonic doll we met at the start of the original Conjuring, this is spawned from the sequel, and will tell the story of the terrifying nun character that haunts Vera Farmiga's Lorraine Warren.
The most interesting element here is that the creature (played by actress Bonnie Aarons in make-up) wasn't in the film until three months before release. Wan's follow-up originally featured a more traditional horned beastie, but the director came up with the idea and asked the studio if he could make the change. Some digital tinkering with an image and a reshoot in March brought the nun to life.
Now she'll be the focus of her own film, with a script by Gary Dauberman and Wan, and with Hardy in charge, we're expecting good things. It's just the latest expansion of the Conjuring films; Annabelle has its own sequel, directed by Lights Out's David F. Sandberg, which will be out on 11 August. Can we expect a further expansion of the universe, with The Conjuring: Second Scary Child From The Left?