‘The Nun 2’ Director Michael Chaves Says Of The Film, “People Wanted More Violence”
deadline.comUsually, it’s the director looking to push the boundaries on a given film. With The Nun II, it was the audience who demanded a more extreme version of the movie. “People wanted more violence,” director Michael Chaves told EW, with a laugh. “There was already a good degree of violence and gore in the movie, but people wanted more of it.
So, we did a little bit of additional photography and we ramped that up. It just goes to show how audiences are always changing, evolving.
Even in the earliest version, it was more [violent] than what was in your traditional Conjuring movie. I think horror audiences have been on this journey, this horror renaissance, where they’ve seen a lot of horror movies, they’ve seen a lot of violence.
It’s something they wanted more of and we gladly gave it.” Looks like the extra work paid off. The Nun 2 did an estimated$13M yesterday on its way to what looks to be a$31M-$34M opening at 3,728 theaters.
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