The Purge 4 is set to become a reality, and this has surprised the viewers. The Purge: Election Year has a definitive ending, and there aren’t many loose ends to work on. The fans of The Purge have been wondering how the fourth installment will pan out in such a situation.
According to Cinema Blend, director/writer James DeMonaco will make The Purge 4 as a prequel. DeMonaco said that The Purge 4 seems natural after the trilogy. The viewers have realized how it ends. The aim is now to go back and see how the whole drama started.
While viewers have watched all the three films, they have always had a lot of burning questions in their mind. They knew what the Purge was all about and the purpose it served, but they always wanted to know how something this atrocious could be allowed by the government of the country.
The Purge started with a plot where every year for 12 hours a country follows a weird ritual. During the 12 hours’ purge, the country legalizes all crimes and suspends all emergency services.
The Purge restricts the government officials with ranking 10 from being disturbed and also prohibits the use of Class 4 weapons, which include grenades, bazookas and rocket launchers.
The government continues following the ritual of maintaining March 21st and 22nd as the day of purge since they claim that The Purge has reduced unemployment and crime and made the economy stronger.
DeMonaco confirmed that he would not direct The Purge 4. He will probably write the upcoming film and produce it, but he isn’t keen on directing this time around.
The Purge 3: Election Year has garnered rave reviews from the viewers. The events of the first film had started in 2020, and The Purge 3 picks up from there. The film shows riots breaking out in Washington D.C where rioters claim that the New Founding Fathers are using The Purge to help their economic agenda.
Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell) who had seen her entire family killed by a masked purger. Roan is now a Senator, and she gains popularity over NFFA’s candidate, Minister Edwidge Owens (Kyle Secor).
The NFFA realize that Roan is a threat to the tradition of the Purge and try to eliminate her. The NFFA revokes the rule of the Purge that protects ranking 10 government officials. The move is to create an opportunity for Roan’s murder.
Roan had already claimed that while the national statics argues that crime rate has reduced thanks to the Purge, it benefits only the wealthy. The poor have no way to secure them and are the worst hit.
The Purge 3 shows Roan staying in her unsecured home to gain popularity with the common masses. While her head of security doesn’t approve the decision, he understands the reason for her decision and tries to secure her home as best as possible.
The Purge 3 ends with Roan getting a landslide victory in the election. She makes the Purge her top priority and gets ready to remove it from the state calendar.
With The Purge becoming a huge success and James DeMonaco revealing that he is keen on the prequel to the trilogy, fans hope for a television series as well. Rumor suggests that The Purge 4 might become a televised series instead of a feature film.
DeMonaco is open to the idea. He said that The Purge television series might be like an interwoven anthology. The viewers will get to see different characters in the various episodes, and the final episode will tie all the stories together.