‘The Conjuring’ Prequel Casts Its Young Ed and Loraine with Garrett Wareing, Amanda Fix

The Conjuring: First Communion has found two actors to fill the shoes of Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. Garrett Wareing will star as Ed Warren, while Amanda Fix will play Lorraine Warren.

New Line has set a date of Sept. 10, 2027 for the movie.

The Conjuring prequel is set years before the 2013’s Conjuring, which took place in 1971. James Wan helmed the original film, and Wilson and Farmiga retired from the roles as paranormal investigators with last year’s Conjuring: Last Rites, which grossed nearly $500 million globally. New Line was keen to keep the franchise going, as it stands as highest grossing horror series ever with $2.7 billion.

The new installment has Rodrigue Huart directing from a script by Richard Naing & Ian Goldberg.

Wareing stars on the Netflix show Ransom Canyon, and appeared in Lionsgate’s Stephen King movie The Long Walk. He broke in a decade ago with Independence Day: Resurgence and also appeared on the Netflix drama Manifest.

Fix stars in the upcoming Plan B film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, and is on Duffer Brothers’ Netflix series Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen. She previously was in North of Normal, Daisy Jones & the Six, High School, and Orphan Black: Echoes.

The new Conjuring movie is produced by Peter Safran, with John Rickard, Natalia Safran and Romel Adam executive producing.