Ethan Hawke plays the child-abducting character known as The Grabber.ĭerrickson wrote the screenplay adaptation with his Sinister and Doctor Strange co-writer C. Jeremy Davies plays Finney’s father, Madeleine McGraw is Finney’s sister, and James Ransone is in there as a character named Max. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. If you’d like to read the short story that The Black Phone is based on, it can be found in Hill’s collection 20th Century Ghosts, which you can buy HERE. The movie stars Mason Thames asįinney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, who is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. I mean, the movie cost $18 million, and it’s going to ultimately make probably $160-170 million worldwide. There’s already a lot of conversation (about a sequel), a lot of pressure being put on it. In a follow-up interview, Derrickson confirmed that Joe’s very protective and personal about his material, but he came to me with the idea and I was like, ‘That’s how you do a sequel to Black Phone. He’s got a great idea, I really liked it. Joe Hill pitched me a wonderful idea for a sequel to Black Phone that, if this movie does well, I’m gonna do it. Speaking with earlier this year, Derrickson said,
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