The film will localize its purging to Staten Island, New York, and show the very first time in which societal structures intentionally collapsed for 12 hours.
Given the prequel nature of the project, DeMonaco also made a point to say in his interview with Vulture that The Purge: The Island could be the “most topical” because the world created by the movie will resemble our own more than any previous installment.
Unlike the previous two Purge sequels, which moved forward chronologically and gradually ramped up their scope, the fourth Purge movie will move back in time to the very first Purge night as it explores the New Founding Fathers of America’s rise to power.