James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the horror genre as the co-creator of the Saw and Insidious franchises and the creator of The Conjuring Universe. The lattermost is the highest-grossing horror franchise at over $2 billion. Wan is also the founder of the film and television production company Atomic Monster. Beginning his career with the Saw franchise, Wan made his feature directorial debut with his first film in 2004. The franchise became commercially successful and grossed more than $1 billion globally. Following a period of setbacks, Wan found new success with the Insidious series, in which he directed the first film in 2010 and its 2013 sequel. The same year as the second Insidious, Wan directed the first Conjuring film to critical and commercial success. He served as the director of the second installment in 2016 and produced subsequent films in the franchise. Outside of horror, Wan directed Furious 7 (2015), the seventh installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, and the DC Extended Universe superhero films Aquaman (2018) and its sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023). Both Furious 7 and Aquaman grossed over $1 billion, making Wan the eighth director with two films to reach the milestone. He is the 16th highest-grossing director of all time as of 2021, with his films having grossed over $3.7 billion worldwide. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Wan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027Paranormal Activity — Producer
• 2027Seasons — Producer
• 2027The Revenge of La Llorona — Producer
• 2027Untitled Blair Witch Film — Producer
• 56 Days — Executive Producer
• 2026Backrooms — Producer
• 2026Insidious: Out of the Further — Producer
• 2026Lee Cronin's The Mummy — Producer
• 2026Mortal Kombat II — Producer
• 2026Other Mommy — Producer
• 2026Soulm8te — Story, Producer
• 2025M3GAN 2.0 — Producer, Characters
• 2025The Conjuring: Last Rites — Wedding Guest, Producer, Story
• The Copenhagen Test — Executive Producer
• 2025The Monkey — Producer
• True Haunting — Executive Producer
• 2024Night Swim — Producer
• 2024Salem's Lot — Producer
• Teacup — Executive Producer
• 2023Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom — Producer, Story, Director
• 2023Insidious: The Red Door — Producer
• 2023Saw X — Executive Producer, Characters
• 2023The Nun II — Producer, Characters
• Archive 81 — Executive Producer
• 2022M3GAN — Story, Producer
• Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles — Executive Producer
• Aquaman: King of Atlantis — Executive Producer
• I Know What You Did Last Summer — Executive Producer
• 2021Malignant — Producer, Director, Story
• 2021Mortal Kombat — Producer
• 2021Spiral: From the Book of Saw — Characters, Executive Producer
• 2021The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It — Producer, Story
• 2021There's Someone Inside Your House — Producer
• 2019Annabelle Comes Home — Story, Producer
• Swamp Thing — Executive Producer
• 2019The Curse of La Llorona — Producer
• 2018Aquaman — Director, Story
• 2018Insidious: The Last Key — Producer
• 2018The Nun — Producer, Story, Second Unit Director
• 2017Annabelle: Creation — Producer
• 2017Jigsaw — Executive Producer, Characters
• 2016Lights Out — Producer
• MacGyver — Director, Executive Producer
• 2016The Conjuring 2 — Screenplay, Story, Director, Producer
• 2015Demonic — Producer
• 2015Furious 7 — Director
• 2015Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw — Self, Thanks
• 2015Insidious: Chapter 3 — Theater Director, Producer
• 2015Lavalantula — Tour Bus Passenger
• 2014Annabelle — Producer
• 2013Insidious: Chapter 2 — Director, Story
• 2013The Conjuring — Director
• 2011Insidious — Director, Editor
• 2010Saw 3D — Executive Producer, Characters
• 2009Saw VI — Characters, Executive Producer
• 2008Doggie Heaven — Director, Editor, Story
• 2008Saw V — Characters, Executive Producer
• 2007Dead Silence — Director, Story
• 2007Death Sentence — Director
• 2007Saw IV — Executive Producer, Characters
• 2006Saw III — Story, Executive Producer, Characters
• 2006The Scott Tibbs Documentary — Characters
• 2005Saw II — Executive Producer, Characters
• 2005Saw: Rebirth — Characters
• 2004Saw — Director, Story
• 2003Saw — Editor, Director
• Daylight Robbery — Pilot
• 1998Stygian — Director, Writer
• Area 51 — Executive Producer
• Border Patrol — Producer
• Concrete Jungle — Executive Producer, Creator
• Cosmetic — Producer, Idea
• Dead by Daylight — Producer
• Doomtown — Producer
• Five Nights at Freddy's 3 — Producer
• Foliage — Producer
• GMO — Producer
• Hunting Season — Producer
• Lights Out 2 — Producer
• Lust — Producer
• Mass Extinction — Producer
• Milk — Producer
• Mortal Kombat III — Producer
• Phasmophobia — Producer
• Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit — Producer
• Robocop — Executive Producer
• Shelter — Producer
• Sid & Zoey — Executive Producer
• Smart House — Idea, Producer
• Sweet Tooth — Producer
• The Boy Who Drew Monsters — Producer
• The Burden — Producer
• The Call of Cthulhu — Director, Producer
• The Creature from the Black Lagoon — Director, Producer, Story
• The Entity — Producer
• The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil — Director, Producer
• The Invocation — Producer
• The Last Train to New York — Producer
• The Magic Order — Executive Producer
• The Root of All Evil — Producer
• Thread: An Insidious Tale — Producer
• Untitled Curry Barker Film — Producer
• Untitled James Wan Universal Monster Project — Producer
• Untitled Leah McKendrick Monster Film — Producer
• Untitled Saw Film — Producer, Characters
• You Take Care Now — Producer

Appearances as themselves (10)

• Superpowered: The DC Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe — Self
• 2019Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis — Self
• 2019Going Deep Into the World of 'Aquaman' — Self
• 2008Not Quite Hollywood — Self
• 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments — Self
• 2007The Making of Dead Silence — Self
• 2006Gregg Hoffman: In Memoriam — Self
• 2006Hitchcocked! — Self
• 2005Hacking Away at 'Saw' — Self