Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Pictures is set to Purge one last time. The fifth and final entry in The Purge franchise is set to open in theaters in July 2020, bringing to an end the series created by James DeMonaco.
Universal and Blumhouse have set a release date for the fifth The Purge film, which is currently being called the “Untitled Next Purge Chapter.” The Purge 5 will be released on July 10, 2020, opening opposite Sony’s new Ghostbusters film directed by Jason Reitman.
The fifth Purge film will follow up 2018’s The First Purge,
a prequel film that depicts the origins of the annual “Purge,” a 12-hour span once a year in which all crime in America, including murder, is legal. Each film follows a different annual Purge, with the last chronological film, The Purge: Election Year, fittingly coming out in 2016.
While the sequel was announced, James DeMonaco, who wrote and directed The Purge, The Purge: Anarchy and The Purge: Election Year, has not confirmed whether he’ll be returning for the upcoming sequel, though he did reveal last year that he plans for the fifth film to be the last.
“I have it in my head,” DeMonaco told Entertainment Weekly in October. “I think I’m going to write it. I think it’s a great way to end it all. 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.”
The film should be a sure fire hit for Blumhouse.
