{"id":298639,"date":"2025-11-22T01:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298639\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:09:13","slug":"black-phone-director-scott-derrickson-got-a-new-joe-hill-project-set-up-at-screen-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298639\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Phone director Scott Derrickson got a new Joe Hill project set up at Screen Gems"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Back in 2021, director Scott Derrickson brought a film based on author Joe Hill\u2019s short story The Black Phone<\/a> to the screen \u2013 and he thought that was going to be the end of it, until a phone call from Hill inspired him to start working on a sequel. Released by Universal, as its predecessor was, Black Phone 2<\/a> reached theatres this year\u2026 and in an interview with Mashable<\/a>, Hill revealed that Derrickson also helped him get a separate project set up at Sony\u2019s Screen Gems.<\/p>\n

During the interview, Hill revealed that he writes a screenplay every year so he can receive healthcare insurance through the Writers Guild of America union, something that really came in handy recently when his wife had to undergo a costly surgery while fighting cancer. He is working on a script right now to make sure he\u2019ll still have access to that health insurance, and he told Mashable, \u201cRight now I\u2019m revising a screenplay that I was paid for for 2025. The script I\u2019m working on now is an adaptation of an unpublished novella that I\u2019d written that will be published eventually.\u201d Derrickson helped him get the project set up because \u201cHe treated it like we were talking about\u00a0his\u00a0family healthcare. He\u2019s like, \u2018We\u2019re booking you a gig.\u2019 And, you know, we talked about possibilities, and then I sent him this novella I had written that hadn\u2019t been published, and a pitch for how I\u2019d adapt it, and he got psyched. And he\u2019s like, \u2018We gotta do this.\u2019 And so he got me the gig to write the script. Now I\u2019m revising it for Sony Screen Gems.\u201c<\/p>\n

Hill did not mention the name of the novella his screenplay is based on \u2013 but, two years ago it was announced<\/a> that genre regular Gary Dauberman was going to be producing a film called\u00a0Ushers\u00a0for Screen Gems, based on an unpublished Joe Hill story. At the time, the story was supposed to be included in an anthology called\u00a0New Demons, but that anthology got cancelled.<\/p>\n

When Ushers was announced, the screenplay being written by Zak Olkewicz, whose previous credits include\u00a0The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Bullet Train,\u00a0and\u00a0Fear Street: Part Two \u2013 1978. We haven\u2019t heard anything more about the project since then, so there\u2019s a chance that the scripting duties ended up being passed over to Hill. Or maybe the script he\u2019s writing is something other than Ushers. We\u2019ll have to wait and see how it turns out.<\/p>\n

Are you glad to hear there\u2019s a Joe Hill project in the works at Screen Gems, Ushers or not? Let us know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n

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