Now that he's now longer involved with Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, director Scott Derrickson is turning his attention back to his first cinematic love: full-on horror. And he's headed back into the welcoming arms of the Blumhouse team, signing up to co-write an adaptation of Joe Hill's short story The Black Phone.
Derrickson's regular collaborator Robert Cargill will also work on the script for the film, which will star Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw. Hill's story, which appears in his 20th Century Ghosts collection, sees a man locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead...
Universal is backing the new movie, which has yet to announce a start date for the shoot.