The Conjuring: Last Rite considered an Avengers approach: Endgame, but then took inspiration from Logan

Since then The convocation The universe has become a real Juggernaut Horror, the fans wondered how everything would have concluded. With multiple films including the Annabelle trilogy, the nun Duology and even The curse of La Llorona In his orbit, you would expect the final chapter, The Conjuring: Last Riteto go out with a bang.

It turns out that they compare themselves with Avengers: endgame It came out when he developed the final film, in particular with the potential for an sending full of bad guy. But it turns out that the creative team behind the film had in mind a much more rooted and emotionally final.

Director Michael Chaveswho previously directed The curse of La Llorona, The Conjuring: the devil made me doAND Sister IIHe revealed that yes, a huge supernatural team was discussed.

“We had a couple of round table sessions in which we were just opening all the ideas of what could have been. And one of them was a kind of endgame a bit like,” we throw all the demons in there, we do everything. “And there is something that seems a bit natural like” Okay, we will only do the Full Rogues gallery. “”

Would have made sense. Latest rites following Patrick Wilson AND True femiga How E and Lorraine Warren, now older and in the face of the twilight of their career. What better time for the last position against their greatest opponents such as Valak or the crooked man, right?

But in the end Chaves took a different path. Rather than chasing the show, he aimed at something more personal, drawing inspiration from Logandirector James MangoldThe powerful swan song for Wolverine.

“One of the things I continued to return is I love Logan, and I love how with Logan he has this great sense of conclusion through the characters and through this great emotional relationship.

“You don’t have Sabertooth who appears and you don’t have all its old similar ones like chronies, magneto, who follow him. What I love that film is that the bad guys are obviously important, but it is really secondary to this emotional journey and emotional closure.

“And so I always use it like a North Star. I wanted to have the same emotional conclusion.”

So instead of an all-star horror brawl, Latest rites Back to the roots of The convocation series by pulling directly from the files of the case of the real life of the Warrens.

The story focuses on the incredible Smurf family in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, a case full of disturbing intensity and psychological depth. It is the type of history rooted and motivated emotionally that allows the focus to remain on Warrens themselves, making their final chapter more personal and significant.

It seems that the creative team has made the right choice and is exactly what the franchise needs to obtain its final fright with the heart.