{"id":79744,"date":"2015-09-16T09:32:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T08:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=79744"},"modified":"2015-09-17T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:57:42","slug":"conjuring-2-casts-ai-star-for-spooky-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/conjuring-2-casts-ai-star-for-spooky-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjuring 2 casts AI star for spooky sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having diverged slightly from the main storyline for prequel story <em><strong>Annabelle<\/strong><\/em>, the story of real-life paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren will continue in <em><strong>The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist<\/strong><\/em>. Now, the first cast member has been announced, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/frances-oconnor-joins-conjuring-2-823424\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> revealing that AI star Frances O&#8217;Connor will appear.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ve probably gathered from the title, the sequel will see the Warrens decamp to London to deal with the case of the Enfield Poltergeist (a topic also explored in Sky&#8217;s recent miniseries <em><strong>The Enfield Haunting<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; we&#8217;d expect a title change at some point). O&#8217;Connor is believed to be playing the mother of a girl who is being haunted, so expect much crying and hair-wringing.<\/p>\n<p>The film will begin production later in September, with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga both returning to reprise their roles alongside O&#8217;Connor. James Wan will also return to direct, with Chad Hayes, Carey Hayes and David Johnson on board as writers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist<\/em> will be released in cinemas on 17 June 2016. For more news on the biggest movies, pick up the latest issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out who will join Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in The Conjuring 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":79746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4743],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Conjuring-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}