THE BLACK PHONE directed by Scott Derrickson, was made for $16 million and earned over $160 million at the global box office in 2021. The original film was based on a short story from author Joe Hill. Derrickson has announced on his social media that the sequel is now filming. Derrickson only agreed to do a sequel because he became excited about an idea pitched to him by the author.
I didn’t really feel any obligation to do a sequel to The Black Phone, but I got excited by an idea that [author] Joe Hill sent me shortly after the release of the first film. And what I can also tell you is that in the same way that The Black Phone was a middle school coming-of-age film, this is a high school coming-of-age film.” He added that, I’m hoping to make a film as good as, if not better than the first one. “
Scott Derrickson
C Robert Cargill returned from the previous film to pen the nscript for The Black Phone 2 with Derrickson. Original cast members Mason Thames, as Finney Shaw, Madeleine McGraw as Finney’s sister Gwen, Jeremy Davies as their dad Terrence, and Miguel Mora as Robin, a friend of Finney’s who was killed in the first movie. Ethan Hawke is reprising the role of the child-killer known as The Grabber. The only hints about the story that Derrickson has shared is that the film will be a high school story.
The film is set to release on October 17th, 2025.
