James Wan Shares Video Of Unused Demon From 'THE CONJURING 2'
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To think that the Conjuring universe could have had a totally different “big bad” besides the demon we now know as “Vala” aka “The Nun” is a bit of a shock but in Hollywood, things can change drastically from script to filming and yesterday, director, James Wan shared that before “The Nun” was used, we were about to get a very different enemy in The Conjuring 2.
Over on Instagram yesterday afternoon, James Wan shared some on-set video footage of the original demon for the very first time, calling it the best demon that he’s never used!
Wan explains, “The original VALAK in The Conjuring 2 was going to be this winged demon. A beautifully/hideously sculpted animatronic puppet head and practical body-suit by the super talented @justin.raleigh (whom I’ve worked with on pretty much all my movies since Insidious 1) and his team @fracturedfxinc, worn by @j_bishara.”
“I think I have only one fully finished shot with CGI wings in place. It was really grand and epic. But as cool as it was, it felt out of place within the Conjuring world we had built,” Wan continues. “And so during post production, I reconceived the villain — feeling it needed to be something more grounded, more personal, and creepier. And thus the demonic Nun was born.
“We cast the amazing @bonnieaarons1 for the role, and all the nun stuff was shot during additional photography, including coming up with new scare set-pieces like the “painting on the wall”, and used visual effects to put the new villain into existing scenes.”
Check out footage of the unused – and unnamed – The Conjuring 2 demon below!
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