Arianna Rivas has joined returning solid members and fellow new addition Demian Bichir in Scott Derrickson’s The Black Cellphone 2
Again in 2021, Common Photos, Blumhouse Productions, and director Scott Derrickson introduced us an adaptation of the Joe Hill brief story The Black Cellphone (take a look at our assessment HERE) that appeared to inform a whole story that may stand by itself… however the movie was made on a price range of round $16 million and earned over $160 million on the international field workplace. So, on October 17, 2025, we’ll be getting The Black Cellphone 2 – and with the challenge a month deep into manufacturing, Deadline has damaged the information that Arianna Rivas has joined the solid. Rivas beforehand had a supporting function within the comedy Promenade Dates, which was launched by the Hulu streaming service earlier this yr, and has her first lead function within the upcoming Jason Statham motion thriller Levon’s Commerce. Particulars on her Black Cellphone 2 character haven’t been revealed.
Primarily based on a brief story by Joe Hill, The Black Cellphone centered on Finney Shaw, a shy however intelligent 13-year-old boy, who’s kidnapped by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement the place screaming is of little use. When a disconnected cellphone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s earlier victims. And they’re useless set on ensuring that what occurred to them doesn’t occur to Finney. In the event you’d wish to learn the brief story that The Black Cellphone relies on, it may be present in Hill’s assortment twentieth Century Ghosts, which you should purchase HERE.
Derrickson wrote the screenplay for the primary movie with C. Robert Cargill, and Derrickson and Cargill have written the screenplay for The Black Cellphone 2 as properly. They’re additionally producing the sequel with Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Ryan Turek. The sequel will see the return of Mason Thames (Tips on how to Practice Your Dragon) as Finney Shaw, Madeleine McGraw (Secrets and techniques of Sulphur Springs) as Finney’s sister Gwen, Jeremy Davies (Justified) as their dad Terrence, and Miguel Mora, whose solely earlier credit score is The Black Cellphone, as Robin, a buddy of Finney’s who was killed within the first film. Ethan Hawke (Moon Knight) is reprising the function of the child-killer generally known as The Grabber. One other new addition to the solid is Demián Bichir of The Hateful Eight.
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