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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.
Based on the bestselling book by Koji Suzuki that spawned so many of these damn horror movies, this will stick closer to the book as a Netflix Original Series, while changing some things to the series. Plot of the series: When a young girl mysteriously receives a videotape on her front porch one day, she opens it and reads a message "Watch Me." Thinking this is some sick joke from her friends, she instantly watches the tape and sees some weird footage in the tape. At the end, it says "You will die in seven days." Running out of time and needing help to see what she can do, she visits her father's old friend, Asakawa, a journalist who's niece died from the same fate that she was watching the tape as well. She and Asakawa call up an expert, Ryuji, who knows about all things paranormal. Running out time, they must figure out the mystery of the tape before more lives are lost.
