The film follows the phenomenal worldwide reception of Wan’s The Conjuring, which marked the largest opening ever for an original horror movie.
The film went on to make more than $318 million worldwide and still remains the second-highest grossing original horror movie of all time, second only to The Exorcist.
Series caretakers James Wan and Peter Safran will produce The Nun, which was apparently a character added in last-minute reshoots just this past March.
Earning nearly $100 million worldwide in its first three days of release, The Conjuring 2 was directed by James Wan (Furious 7) following the record-breaking success of The Conjuring, bringing to the screen another real case from the files of renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren.