James Wan is an Australian film director. He started his filming career in the year 2000 where the first award he ever won was at the underground film festival in Melbourne, Australia. From there he gained major popularity and became a film director.He has primarily worked in the genre of horror and has created some iconic horror films such as Saw and The Conjuring, two very popular horror movies today.
The first popular horror film Wan directed was Saw. It was released in 2004 and it’s about a serial killer named Jigsaw. He traps people into these rooms and locks them up with dangerous things and he puts people through puzzles where if they don’t solve the puzzle they will die, or they experience a family that dies if they don’t escape in the time given.
The film was a huge hit, with a 1.2 million dollar budget, it gained over a 100 million dollars worldwide. Really jumpstarting James Wan’s career as a movie director. And has gained much more as many people are still watching it today around the time of Halloween.
The second popular horror film Wan directed was The Conjuring , released in 2013. It is about a family where the Perrons and their five children move to a farmhouse that at first seems like a normal farmhouse, but not really as the Perron’s realize that the farmhouse is haunted and they experience some brutal things going on in the farmhouse.
Again, this was another huge hit that James Wan made. With a budget of 20 million dollars, The Conjuring made 321 million dollars worldwide and, to this day, is still a really popular movie and is another movie that many people see around the time of Halloween. The film was so popular, James Wan made a sequel to the conjuring and called it The Conjuring 2
James Wan has not only been successful on these two horror movies in Saw and The Conjuring, he’s also made some other movies that have been doing really well overall such as Aquaman and Aquaman 2, Insidious, and many others. Overall James Wan has been a successful movie director and has definitely made an impact on the movie industry.
James Wan is still alive today, and at 48 years old he has been doing well in the movie industry as over his career he has gained 70 million dollars from all the movies he has directed and is likely going to continue to be a movie director because of how well he has been doing as a director.
