James Wan stepped behind the camera for ‘The Nun’ as second unit director for Corin Hardy.
The mastermind behind ‘The Conjuring’ franchise – who directed the first movie and its sequel before taking on a producer role for ‘Annabelle’ and ‘Annabelle: Creation’ – helped out the filmmaker at the helm of the upcoming horror flick.
Corin told EW: "Very excitingly, James Wan was my second unit director in a little bit of additional photography.
"It is funny, but we did some additional photography, and you’re always pushing for double what you really can afford, time – or budget-wise. I said, ‘I want to do all of this, but if we’re going to do it, we really need to run two units.’
"James is a full-on, hands-on guy and he was like, ‘Anything I can do of service!’ It was like, ‘I really want to take you up on that.’ So, there were nights when he was shooting a section in the forest and I was shooting interiors."
It was a fittingly scary time on set for Corin as the cast and crew shot scenes in "a real Romanian fortress", which left everyone feeling a little shaken.
He explained to CinemaBlend: "Where I was situated, I had to be out of camera shot, so I was in one of these cells … I see these two guys from the crew, probably sound department, just sort of sitting back a little further in the dark.
"I said hi. I was focused on the film. I turned my back and sat with my back to these two guys. And I was watching the monitors. Half an hour later … I finally got the shot … I got up and turned to the two men and said, ‘Did you see that?’
"And I turned around and … there was just no one in the room. And there hadn’t been anyone in there at all. There’s nowhere they could’ve come out of. I saw them on the way in. I just felt that they were there the whole time."
James Wan directed part of The Nun
