The Purge 4 Announced for Summer 2018 Release

02/17/2017 03:51 pm EST

The Purge 4 has been officially announced by Blumhouse Pictures and Platinum Dunes; the film is set for a July 4, 2018 release date.

Deadline reports that franchise creator James DeMonaco will write the fourth installment but not direct, as he did with Anarchy and Election Year, the previous two installments.

Our team over at Pop Culture Now actually had a chance to sit down with DeMonaco last fall, and the filmmaker actually revealed some early hints about what might happen with The Purge 4 - including the now-confirmed notion that he would only write and not direct. For more on that...

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