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“The Purge” creator James DeMonaco has confirmed that he’s finished the script for a sixth film entry in the franchise, one that will see the return of Frank Grillo’s Leo Barnes character from the second and third films.
The franchise took a detour after the third film, with the fourth serving as a prequel showing the first ‘Purge’ in action.
The fifth jumped forward in time eight years after the third film when the New Founding Fathers of America, having regained control of the government, reinstated the purge – only for it to go entirely out of control and the U.S. collapsing into anarchy.
In a new interview with The Playlist, DeMonaco says the film is in a state of limbo right now due to budgetary concerns:
“I wrote the script. Universal has seen it. There are concerns about budget, but it definitely presents a fractured America … The America I present in Purge 6 is where we all are separated by ideology and sexual preference. So, the states are broken down in different ways.
It’s written, it’s in [Universal’s] hands. I think they’re scared about the budget. But my thing was if I was going to come back and direct a sixth one, it was going to be something bigger and a little more epic in scope, with this new America I want to present and bringing back [Frank Grillo’s] character. So, it’s kinda in limbo.”
The films have seen their budgets increase from $3 million for the first to $18 million for the fifth. That was fine when the box-office kept growing. However, the fifth film released in mid-2021 saw a contraction – dropping to $77 million, which is only a little over half the $137 million worldwide gross of the fourth film.
DeMonaco directed the first three films but stepped back from that job for the fourth and fifth. Reviews for the series have been mixed throughout, overall the films have grossed $534 million worldwide from a combined budget of $53 million.
DeMonaco’s next project is the horror film “The Home” starring Pete Davidson, which is about a graffiti artist forced to do community service at a retirement home filled with residents up to sinister deeds.
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