James Wan

James Wan born 26 February 1977 is an Australian filmmaker He has primarily worked in the horror genre as the cocreator of the Saw and Insidious franchises and the creator of The Conjuring Universe The lattermost is the highestgrossing 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 highestgrossing director of all time as of 2021 with his films having grossed over 37 billion worldwide Description above from the Wikipedia article James Wan licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia