Universal has released the first trailer for long-awaited sequel film The Forever Purge, which is currently slated to be the fifth and possibly final movie in the popular Purge horror franchise.
The Purge film franchise is coming to an end (for now) with The Forever Purge. This fifth and final entry is set after the Purge has been abolished – but that’s not going to stop a group of people from staging their own Purge. After all, if it did, there wouldn’t be much of a movie. Franchise creator James DeMonaco wrote the script, while Everardo Gout directs. Watch The Forever Purge trailer below.
For one night a year, all crime is legal, including murder. For the rest of the year, America is peaceful and crime free. That was James DeMonaco’s original premise for The Purge, and the franchise is now onto its fifth – and ostensibly final – installment, The Forever Purge. This one asks: what if some folks felt like one night just wasn’t enough?
Based on a script by DeMonaco and once again under the Blumhouse roof, The Forever Purge is directed by Everardo Gout best known for Days of Grace and his work on National Geographic sci-fi Mars.
This story here is a bit of a change for the franchise in general. For one thing, the Purge – a one-night yearly event where all crime is legal – is now abolished. For another, this film takes the franchise out of its traditional city setting. And of course, this is the final film in the series, so anything can happen at this point.
I’ll confess I haven’t kept up with The Purge franchise. I watched the first three films and then decided I’d seen enough. But the series has remained wildly popular – and it helps that the films tend to have low budgets which ensure they have big opening weekends. The films also try to implement political and social undertones that help elevate them from the standard hack and slash junk it could be. Speaking with Total Film, director Everardo Gout said: “It’s an amazing story of Latinos and Americans coming together to overcome despair and evil.”
“I think it’s a great way to end it all,” franchise creator and screenwriter James DeMonaco said in a previous interview. “We want to end it all, I think, in this one, and I’m very excited. When I came up with the idea and pitched it to everybody, they seemed psyched, and I think it will be a really cool ending, how we take this one home.”
No horror franchise ever really dies, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Blumhouse and Universal revive The Purge at some point. For now, though, the series will come to a close this summer when The Forever Purge hits theaters on July 2, 2021.
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