One of my favorite parts of the process is collaborating with him, and figuring out cool shots and things that excite us. “There’s no one else I’d want in the trenches with me, doing this. Dauberman wanted to work with DP Michael Burgess because he feels that he’s really a director, at heart, as well.

We’re not going outside the box on this one, but we’re trying to get a couple more moments of levity that maybe weren’t there, in the first and second films.” We’re trying to capture that teenagers alone in the house thing. It fits the girls ‘cause they’re so upbeat. I’ve been playing around with that, a little bit more. “I’m trying to land the moments that people laugh, and then they get scared, right away.

Even though Dauberman is not a huge fan of horror comedy, he does love some comedy in his horror, so the film will have moments of levity.

They’ll actually be going back to the footage of the original The Conjuring for that moment, and Annabelle Comes Home falls in the timeline between The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2. After that kernel of an idea, Wan and director Gary Dauberman flushed out the overall structure together, and figured out who would be involved and what the larger movements of the story would be, ultimately landing on starting things off when the Warrens bring Annabelle home to the artifacts room, which sets up everything that follows.

Pictures The idea to hone in on the Warren family for this third film in the Annabelle franchise came from franchise producer James Wan.

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