While acknowledging they do take liberties in their version, Chaves stressed, “A lot of it is.
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In real life, just two weeks later, Arne would kill his landlord, leading to the oh-so unique turn of events of his lawyer standing up in court and saying his client was pleading “not guilty by reason of demonic possession.” Chaves stressed that he wouldn’t describe The Devil Made Me Do It as a court case movie, as the trial itself is more of a backdrop to the Warrens’ investigation, but that moment with the lawyer is in the film and the director recalled some test audiences being sure that really didn’t happen when “it 100% did – and his lawyer and the Warrens stood by that.” In the midst of increasingly chaotic events, Arne (Ruairi O’Connor) – the fiancé of David’s older sister, Debbie (Sarah Catherine Hook) – makes a desperate attempt to save the boy by pleading for whatever is possessing David to take him instead. The intense opening sequence of the film was screened for us, which jumps right in with Ed and Lorraine present for the exorcism of David Glatzel ( The Haunting of Hill House and WandaVision’s Julian Hilliard), a young boy who has become possessed. THE TRUE STORY Things get twisted for David Glatzel (Julian Hilliard) during his exorcism in 'The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It' Read on for what was shown and discussed about the next step in the ever-growing Conjuring Universe, how much of the story is true, and how the film touches upon a time when law enforcement regularly worked with psychics like Lorraine Warren. The visit was done under strict Covid guidelines – essentially the same rules anyone working on a studio lot have to follow these days, which included a rapid Covid test prior to being cleared to come onto the lot and staying masked and socially distanced the entire time. I should note this was the very first in-person press event (drive-in screenings aside) I’d attended since the beginning of the pandemic, making it a very notable experience. (L-R) Patrick Wilson, director Michael Chaves, and Vera Farmiga on the set of 'The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It' lot for Fandom, where I was among a small group of journalists shown the first 11 minutes of the new sequel, before speaking to director Michael Chaves, who previously helmed another film in the expanded Conjuring Universe, 2019’a The Curse of La Llorona. I recently paid a visit to the Warner Bros. Once more inspired by the real life cases of married paranormal investigators Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), the new film is based around events surrounding the 1981 trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, who killed his landlord but claimed the reason was… well, it’s right there in the title of the movie. The new release is simultaneously the third Conjuring-specific film and also the eighth film in the expansive Conjuring franchise, which now includes multiple spinoffs and has brought in $1.9 billion in combined ticket sales.
Having become one of Hollywood’s most successful franchises in recent years, The Conjuring series’ next chapter arrives in June with the release of The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.