Despite being billed as the final chapter, The Conjuring: Last Rites “was not a head fake,” franchise producer Peter Safran assures EW.

The ninth installment in The Conjuring universe may have closed the book on Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson‘s reign as Lorraine and Ed Warren, but that doesn’t mean the franchise has to stop there.

“It was the end of that particular version of the story with Patrick [Wilson] and Vera [Farmiga] and that version of The Conjuring,” Safran clarifies.

“I think that Last Rites shows that...