DOCTOR STRANGE Director Scott Derrickson to Direct Adaptation of Joe Hill's BLACK PHONE for Blumhouse

Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson has boarded the project Black Phone for Blumhouse and Universal. He will direct the film, which is based on the novella by horror writer, Joe Hill, son of Stephen King. Derrickson will adapt the story with frequent collaborator Robert Cargill (Bermuda, Doctor Strange, Sinister). Hill is set to executive produce.

Here’s the book’s synopsis:

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . .

Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .

John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .

Mason Thames (For All Mankind) will star in Black Phone with Madeleine McGraw (Toy Story 4, Secrets of Sulphur Springs). Derrickson, Cargill and Jason Blum, for Blumhouse, are producing the film as well. Are you interested in this story?

via: Deadline