There has been talk about James Wan leaving the horror genre ever since news broke that he was recruited to direct Fast & Furious 7, but of course he’d need to leave the genre if he committed to make an action film. However, the problem is that apparently Wan isn’t just going on a horror hiatus while making the nextFast & Furious movie. He’s leaving horror for good.
Moviefone ran an interview conducted in July for the release of Wan’s latest directorial effort, Insidious: Chapter 2, and in that interview, Wan is quoted as saying:
“I’m going to go on record and say I am finished with the horror genre.Conjuring and Insidious 2 are my two last scary movies.”
Naturally, Moviefone followed up asking for a reason for Wan’s decision to go cold turkey, to which the director replied, “I spent the last ten years of my life doing this. It’s time for a change, for goodness sake!”
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