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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