Patrick Wilson must be a sucker for fear-based punishment. Not content with having his heebies well and truly jeebied in James Wan’s Insidious, he’s decided to reunite with the director for his next horror movie, The Conjuring. And the pair has somehow convinced Vera Farmiga – who had her own brush with terror in Orphan – to come along for the ride.
As we reported last June, The Conjuring** will be based on the experiences of husband-and-wife paranormal experts Ed and Lorraine Warren, who did their best to help the petrified Perron family. Seems the real-life family had a little problem with horrifying spirits in their Rhode Island farmhouse.
Wilson and Farmiga will play the Warrens, and Wan is looking for actors to play the Perrons. Though the last information on the film’s development (including the script by Chad and Carey Hayes)noted that the original producers didn’t gave the rights to the Perron story, it would appear that New Line has nabbed all the required clearances for everyone involved. Wan aims to kicks off shooting this March in North Carolina.
Wilson will next hit our screens this February in Young Adul****t, and he also has a role in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, which arrives June 1. Farmiga’s latest film is CIA thriller Safe House, due February 24.