Again in 2021, director Scott Derrickson introduced a movie based mostly on writer Joe Hill’s quick story The Black Telephone to the display – and he thought that was going to be the tip of it, till a cellphone name from Hill impressed him to begin engaged on a sequel. Launched by Common, as its predecessor was, Black Telephone 2 reached theatres this yr… and in an interview with Mashable, Hill revealed that Derrickson additionally helped him get a separate mission arrange at Sony’s Display screen Gems.
In the course of the interview, Hill revealed that he writes a screenplay yearly so he can obtain healthcare insurance coverage via the Writers Guild of America union, one thing that actually got here in helpful not too long ago when his spouse needed to bear a expensive surgical procedure whereas combating most cancers. He’s engaged on a script proper now to ensure he’ll nonetheless have entry to that medical health insurance, and he informed Mashable, “Right now I’m revising a screenplay that I was paid for for 2025. The script I’m working on now is an adaptation of an unpublished novella that I’d written that will be published eventually.” Derrickson helped him get the mission arrange as a result of “He handled it like we had been speaking about his household healthcare. He’s like, ‘We’re reserving you a gig.’ And, you already know, we talked about prospects, after which I despatched him this novella I had written that hadn’t been revealed, and a pitch for a way I’d adapt it, and he bought psyched. And he’s like, ‘We gotta do this.’ And so he bought me the gig to jot down the script. Now I’m revising it for Sony Display screen Gems.“
Hill didn’t point out the title of the novella his screenplay is predicated on – however, two years in the past it was introduced that style common Gary Dauberman was going to be producing a movie known as Ushers for Display screen Gems, based mostly on an unpublished Joe Hill story. On the time, the story was purported to be included in an anthology known as New Demons, however that anthology bought cancelled.
When Ushers was introduced, the screenplay being written by Zak Olkewicz, whose earlier credit embrace The Final Voyage of the Demeter, Bullet Prepare, and Concern Road: Half Two – 1978. We haven’t heard something extra concerning the mission since then, so there’s an opportunity that the scripting duties ended up being handed over to Hill. Or possibly the script he’s writing is one thing aside from Ushers. We’ll have to attend and see the way it seems.
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