Director Scott Derrickson says The Black Cellphone 2 will shock viewers and has a extra sophisticated script than the primary film
Again in 2021, Common Photos, Blumhouse Productions, and director Scott Derrickson introduced us an adaptation of the Joe Hill quick story The Black Cellphone (take a look at our overview HERE) that appeared to inform an entire story that will 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. Filming wrapped in January, and through an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Derrickson (whose new movie The Gorge was launched by way of Apple TV+ right now) stated that he’s aiming to shock viewers with the Black Cellphone sequel, which is “more complicated” than its predecessor.
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 nicely, with Derrickson returning to the helm. He and Cargill are additionally producing the sequel with Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Ryan Turek.
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 telephone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s earlier victims. And they’re lifeless set on ensuring that what occurred to them doesn’t occur to Finney. Should you’d prefer to learn the quick story that The Black Cellphone relies on, it may be present in Hill’s assortment twentieth Century Ghosts, which you should buy HERE.
The sequel will see the return of Mason Thames (How you can 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 good friend 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. New additions to the solid embody Demián Bichir of The Hateful Eight and Arianna Rivas has joined the solid. Rivas beforehand had a supporting function within the comedy Promenade Dates, which was launched by way of the Hulu streaming service earlier this yr, and has her first lead function within the upcoming Jason Statham motion thriller A Working Man (previously generally known as Levon’s Commerce).
Derrickson advised The Hollywood Reporter, “I didn’t really feel obliged to make a sequel, however Joe Hill got here up with an concept that I preferred and it turned the genesis of what we finally wrote. I then realized that if I made an enormous film like The Gorge first, the [Black Phone] youngsters [Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw] could be in highschool by the point I completed. So I’d have a window of time with them in highschool, and I may make a highschool coming-of-age film in the identical manner that the unique was a center college coming-of-age film. They’re two very totally different varieties of flicks. … [The Black Phone 2] is a way more sophisticated script. There’s a simplicity to The Black Cellphone, and whereas it’s not at all times straightforward to be easy, [The Black Phone 2] is just not that. This one has a way more sophisticated world and thought, and it was thrilling to not repeat the primary film. The worst sort of horror sequel is the one the place you attempt to do the identical factor once more, however simply extra of it. That goes for any sequel in any style, frankly. So I knew I didn’t wish to do this, and one of the best sequels are those that shock you. They actually enterprise into totally different territory altogether and give you a contemporary expertise, although you’re coping with characters that you simply’ve grown to care about from the primary movie.“
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