The Crooked Man


No official plot yet, but it's based on the character shown in The Conjuring 2.

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CURRENT STATUS: 
Development Hell

 

PROJECT DETAILS:

It looks like this project is no longer happening, at least not anytime soon. James Wan said the following via social media: "And no, unfortunately the spin-off movie with this character isn’t happening. But maybe one day." It shouldn't come as a huge surprise since it seems like the project never really moved passed the idea stage and the producers just kind of sat on it while they moved forward with other projects. (11/7/22)

Actor Javier Botet (who played The Crooked Man in Conjuring 2) gave somewhat of an update on the project, essentially reiterating what was said in the last update where the producers are just kind of sitting on the project at the moment. Here's what he had to say: "Since the first time I met the producers when we were shooting Conjuring 2, they spoke to me, they told me that the intention was to make a spinoff. So I said, ‘Okay, let’s make Conjuring 2 first and then we will play it by ear. But I love the character. It’s amazing, beautiful. So it’s a pity to see only a little, little part in The Conjuring 2. I’m so excited and I want to make a Crooked Man spinoff. But I know the same that everybody knows. They wrote the screenplay and they are waiting at the moment. They want to do it, but we don’t have a schedule. We don’t know when it’s going to happen." (11/11/19)

Producer Peter Safran gave a brief update on the project recently, where he essentially says that this is still in development, but not the priority right now. Here's what he had to say: "There are a bunch of things that we're exploring in [Annabelle Comes Home] that I just love. That I think are going to be great. Frequently, the audience tells you what the next one should be. When we did Conjuring 2, we all thought Crooked Man would be the next one out the gate. We just loved it. It was just a great character. Instead, the audience was so fascinated by the nun. With so many people who were directly messaging James about what was her origin, who is she, where'd she come ... There's just a real fascination. It was clear that that, in fact, should be the next one. It's not that we won't do Crooked Man, but you kind of have to balance out [the franchise]. I'm sure that we have ideas of what we want to do beyond this, from the artifact room, but I suspect that we'll probably ... The audience will tell us exactly what we should be doing." (4/11/19)

James Wan gave a brief update on the direction they're going with the film, saying: "...we think we have a really exciting story. What we want to do, with The Conjuring universe, is we want each of our little offshoots to have a very different flavor, right? So, for example, Annabelle is the classic sort-of haunted doll subgenre. And with The Crooked Man, I would love to push it more down somewhat of that dark fairytale, and more whimsical, subgenre. I love the idea that, within the Conjuring universe, each of our little movies all have their own flavor, so that way they don’t feel like they’re the same films." (8/24/17)

The SyFy channel released their own movie in 2016 also called The Crooked Man.

The Crooked Man character is based on an English nursery rhyme from the mid-1800s: "There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house."

This is the third spinoff from The Conjuring series, which also includes Annabelle and The Nun.

This is a spinoff from The Conjuring 2 that features the character called "The Crooked Man."


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