Scott Derrickson to Direct ‘Black Phone’ For Blumhouse

“Doctor Strange” director Scott Derrickson will direct “Black Phone” for Blumhouse and Universal, in response to a person with information of the venture. Derrickson and frequent collaborator Robert Cargill tailored the script based mostly on Joe Hill’s quick story.

Mason Thames (“For All Mankind”) and Madeleine McGraw (“Toy Story 4,” “Secrets of Sulphur Springs”) are set to star within the movie.

Although plot particulars are being stored below wraps, the e-book synopsis is as follows:

Imogene is younger and exquisite. She kisses like a film star and is aware of every little thing about each movie ever made. She’s additionally lifeless and ready within the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. Arthur Roth is a lonely child with large concepts and a present for attracting abuse. It isn’t simple to make associates while you’re the one inflatable boy on the town. Francis is sad. Francis was human as soon as, however that was then. Now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust and everybody in Calliphora will tremble once they hear him sing. John Finney is locked in a basement that’s stained with the blood of half a dozen different murdered youngsters. In the cellar with him is an vintage phone, lengthy since disconnected, however which rings at evening with calls from the lifeless.

Derrickson, Cargill and Jason Blum, for Blumhouse, are producing the movie. Joe Hill is an government producer. Universal and Blumhouse will current the Crooked Highway Productions.

Scott Derrickson is represented by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Ziffren Brittenham. Cargill is represented by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Hill is represented by Hotchkiss Daily & Associates and The Choate Agency. Mason Thames is represented by AKA Talent Agency, MC Talent Management and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Madeleine McGraw is represented by Coast to Coast Talent Group, the The Burstein Company and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham

Deadline first reported the information.