The Tudors' Annabelle Wallis and Ward Horton have been cast in New Line's evil doll spin-off to last summer's The Conjuring.
Just when you thought it was safe to look at your wicked looking demonic doll, it turns out New Line is not done frightening the playtime out of you with more “true story” events.
It has been revealed via TheWrap that actors Annabelle Wallis and Ward Horton shall be joining the burgeoning Conjuring franchise in Annabelle. The film, which is set to be directed by the 2013 sleeper hit’s cinematographer, John Leonetti, is looking to continue the horror with a prequel about just all the hellbent mischief that doll got up to before being picked up by Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Wallis is best known for the shows Peaky Blinders and Showtime’s The Tudors in which she played Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII. She also had a small part as the “co-ed” that Charles Xavier woos in X-Men: First Class. Horton is best known at the moment for his role as a stockbroker in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. He also appeared in the soap One Life to Live.
this should not be confused with the intended sequel to that horror, The Conjuring 2, which is currently being penned by Chad and Carey of the first film. That also is intended to follow the debated “true stories” of Ed and Lorraine Warren, likely to a famous case of possession in London, as Patrick Wilson confirmed to me in September. However, whether that changes or not, Annabelle, whose story was more or less fully represented in The Conjuring prologue, is still getting her own movie