The Doctor Strange filmmaker has joined the horror movie Black Phone.
Multiple outlets confirm that Scott Derrickson will direct the forthcoming horror pic Black Phone for Blumhouse and Universal Pictures.
The helmer is also set to co-write the big-screen adaptation of Joe Hill’s horror novella with Robert Cargill. Derrickson and Cargill worked together before as co-writers on the script for Doctor Strange and Sinister.
According to Variety, the story revolves around “a dead cinephile, a lonely kid, an eight-foot-tall locust and a man locked in a basement stained with the blood of murdered children. There’s also an old, disconnected telephone that rings at night with calls from the dead.”
Starring in the film is Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw.
