James Wan

Australian filmmaker

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2025 James Wan produces 'The Monkey' (Post-production)
2025 James Wan contributes story to an unnamed project (Post-production)
2024 James Wan is associated with the television series Teacup
2024 James Wan produces ''Salem's Lot'
2024 James Wan produces 'Night Swim'
2023 James Wan contributes story and produces 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom'
2023 James Wan serves as executive producer for 'Saw X'
2023 James Wan produces 'The Nun II'
2023 James Wan produces 'Insidious: The Red Door'
2023 Directed Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the sequel to his previous DC superhero film.
October 2023 Disney Branded Television announced a Gargoyles live-action reboot with Wan and Michael Clear joining as executive producers.
February 2023 A24 announced a film adaptation of the Backrooms, with Wan and other producers from Atomic Monster, 21 Laps Entertainment, and Chernin Entertainment attached to the project.
2022 James Wan was involved in producing two television series: Archive 81 and Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles
2022 James Wan contributes story to 'M3GAN'
December 2022 Wan confirmed that the Dylan Dog television series was still in development and was working to find investors with the publishing house.
November 16 2022 Announced that Atomic Monster was in talks to merge with Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions, with a shared first-look deal with Universal Pictures.
2021 James Wan was involved in two television series: Aquaman: King of Atlantis and I Know What You Did Last Summer
2021 James Wan serves as executive producer for 'Spiral: From the Book of Saw'
2021 James Wan directs and contributes story to 'Malignant'
2021 James Wan produces 'Mortal Kombat'
2021 James Wan contributes story to 'The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It'
2021 Directed the horror film Malignant and co-produced the film adaptation of There's Someone Inside Your House for Netflix.
April 2021 The planned horror-tinged Aquaman spin-off film The Trench, which Wan was set to produce, was cancelled.
March 2020 Wan was announced to be working with Universal Pictures to produce a modern remake of Frankenstein.
2019 James Wan contributes story to 'Annabelle Comes Home'
2019 James Wan produces 'The Curse of La Llorona'
2019 Developed a television series based on the character Swamp Thing for the DC Universe streaming service.
November 4 2019 James Wan married Ingrid Bisu in a personal ceremony.
October 2019 Wan was announced to be attached to a television series based on the Italian horror comics series Dylan Dog.
June 22 2019 James Wan became engaged to Romanian actress Ingrid Bisu, announcing the engagement on his Instagram account.
2018 James Wan produces 'Insidious: The Last Key'
2018 James Wan contributes story and serves as second unit director for 'The Nun'
2018 James Wan directs 'Aquaman'
2018 James Wan and producers Roy Lee and Larry Sanitsky began developing a film adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Tommyknockers, which Universal Pictures later acquired.
2018 Directed the DC Extended Universe superhero film Aquaman, which grossed over $1.148 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing DCEU film.
February 2018 Confirmed as executive producer for the animated adaptation of Usagi Yojimbo comic book series.
July 2017 Wan was replaced by Andy Muschietti as director for the live-action Robotech film at Sony.
September 2016 Wan executive produced and directed the pilot episode of the MacGyver television series reboot.
June 10 2016 The Conjuring 2 is released to high critical acclaim and commercial success. In the same month, Wan launches his own production company, Atomic Monster, at New Line Cinema.
August 7 2015 Signed on to produce New Line Cinema's Mortal Kombat reboot.
April 2015 Furious 7 is released, becoming the most commercially successful film in the franchise, grossing over $1.516 billion globally.
2013 Directed Insidious: Chapter 2 and the first film in The Conjuring franchise, marking significant success in the horror genre.
April 2013 Confirmed as director of Furious 7, with approval from Justin Lin.
January 2013 James Wan enters negotiations with Universal Pictures to direct the seventh installment of the Fast & Furious franchise after Justin Lin confirms he will not continue as director.
2012 Disney was in talks with Wan about directing a remake of The Rocketeer, but the project did not materialize.
2010 Directed the first Insidious film, contributing to the successful horror franchise.

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