I thought director Scott Derrickson’s Joe Hill adaptation The Black Phone (get it HERE) was a great movie. I would agree with the two reviews we have here on JoBlo.com, both of which gave the film a score of 9/10. (You can read one at THIS LINK and the other HERE.) I also thought it was a standalone movie. I never thought of it getting any kind of sequel. But The Black Phone was a financial success for Universal Pictures, and that means the studio wants more. Thankfully, it turns out that Hill already pitched an idea for The Black Phone 2 to Derrickson!
Speaking with ComicBook.com earlier this year, Derrickson said,
Joe Hill pitched me a wonderful idea for a sequel to Black Phone that, if this movie does well, I’m gonna do it. He’s got a great idea, I really liked it. Joe’s very protective and personal about his material, but he came to me with the idea and I was like, ‘That’s how you do a sequel to Black Phone. That’s terrific.'”
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In a follow-up interview, Derrickson confirmed that
There’s already a lot of conversation (about a sequel), a lot of pressure being put on it. I mean, the movie cost $18 million, and it’s going to ultimately make probably $160-170 million worldwide. So they want another one. Of course, they do.”
If you’d like to read the short story that The Black Phone is based on, it can be found in Hill’s collection 20th Century Ghosts, which you can buy HERE. The movie stars Mason Thames as
Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, who is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
Jeremy Davies plays Finney’s father, Madeleine McGraw is Finney’s sister, and James Ransone is in there as a character named Max. Ethan Hawke plays the child-abducting character known as The Grabber.
Derrickson wrote the screenplay adaptation with his Sinister and Doctor Strange co-writer C. Robert Cargill. Derrickson and Cargill also produced The Black Phone with Blumhouse’s Jason Blum. Hill serves as executive producer.
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