James Wan's The Conjuring

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Fans loved Insidious, and totally dug Death Sentence, so James Wan’s next horror/ghost story is an exciting prospect.

Titled The Conjuring, the picture is in pre-production and is bustling through the casting process. Insidious star Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga recently signed, and now we know who’ll join them.

THR, which broke the first story, reports that Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor are also part of Wan’s growing ensemble, which will begin filming in North Carolina this March.

The story follows husband-and-wife demonologists (played by Wilson and Farmiga) who investigate a Rhode Island couple complaining that their farmhouse is haunted. Livingston (Office Space) and Taylor (Say Anything) would play the spooked couple.

The trade also says that Wan's film is now operating under a working title of The Untitled Warren Files Project, so don’t grow too attached to The Conjuring. Chad and Carey Hayes are credited with the screenplay, which claims to be based on factual events that occurred to the Perron family in the 1970s. New Line, in acquiring the pitch, claimed the rights to the story of the Perrons as well as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, so we’ll see what specific changes are made between now and release.