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Jeremy Davies to star in Scott Derrickson’s Joe Hill adaptation The Black Phone

January 16, 2021 by Gary Collinson

Back in October of last year it was announced that Sinister and Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson is set to make his return to the horror genre with an adaptation of Joe Hill’s The Black Phone, and now comes word that Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan, Lost) has signed on to star.

The Black Phone was published in Hill’s short story collection 20th Century Ghosts, and the synopsis reads:

John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in a basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children. With him in his subterranean cell is an antique phone, long since disconnected…but which rings at night, anyway, with calls from the dead.

The Black Phone has been written by Derrickson and frequent collaborator C. Robert Cargill, while Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions is producing the film for Universal Pictures.

 

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Jeremy Davies, Joe Hill, Scott Derrickson, the black phone

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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