Scott Derrickson may have parted ways with Marvel on the upcoming Doctor Strange And The Multiverse of Madness, but he’s cooking up a different project that will return him to his horror roots. According to , his upcoming Blumhouse movie, The Black Phone, has been given a January 28, 2022 release date by Universal Pictures.
The Black Phone will star Ethan Hawke and James Ransone (It Chapter 2) and tell the story of a 13-year-old boy named Finney Shaw who is kidnapped by a serial killer and trapped in a soundproof basement. In the basement, there is a disconnected black phone. Shortly after Finney’s abduction, he begins to hear the phone, impossibly, start ringing. On the other end, he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims who want to help Finney escape the same fate.
Prior to Doctor Strange, Derrickson made a name for himself in horror cult classics like The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Sinister. He is co-writing The Black Phone along with his Sinister and Doctor Strange cohort Robert Cargill. The story is based on the short by Joe Hill, which was published in the novel 20th Century Ghosts.
