{"id":49626,"date":"2013-09-12T11:59:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T10:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=49626"},"modified":"2013-09-12T12:11:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T11:11:01","slug":"james-wan-is-finished-with-the-horror-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/james-wan-is-finished-with-the-horror-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"James Wan is finished with the horror genre"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"conjuring\"<\/a>James Wan, director of The Conjuring<\/em><\/a> and the upcoming Insidious: Chapter 2<\/em><\/a>, has announced that he is “finished with the horror genre.”<\/p>\n

Speaking to Moviefone<\/a>, Wan explained that “I spent the last ten years of my life doing this. It’s time for a change, for goodness sake! Hollywood puts you in a box. If you do a successful comedy, then you’re know as The Comedy Guy. If you do a successful car chase movie, then you become that guy. So I’m a student of cinema, so I just want to make sure I get the chance to make other kinds of films.”<\/p>\n

Wan broke onto the horror scene with Saw<\/em> back in 2004 but chose not to return for a second film. “I never did any of the Saw<\/em> sequels, because I felt that, the story that I wanted to tell with the Saw<\/em> film, I’d already told it and I didn’t want to repeat myself. Whereas, I did Insidious: Chapter 2<\/em> because I felt I never finished that story. In a lot of ways, I see the two films as one big movie. When I made the first one, it was like “Oh, I ran out of money and I’ll just finish it here.’ And then that became Insidious 1<\/em> and then I was like, ‘Okay, I’ll get the checks and then finish the rest.'”<\/p>\n

Wan has signed on to direct Fast & Furious 7<\/em>, but this annoucement confirms that he’s leaving the horror genre behind, at least for the forseeable future.<\/p>\n

Insidious: Chapter 2<\/em> is released 13 September and you can read our review here<\/a>. You can buy Saw<\/em> for £3.83 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fBbi4NeebAk<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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