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How Black Phone director/co-writer Scott Derrickson convinced Blumhouse to do a sequel, and undo the death of the Grabber
Blumhouse Productions greenlit Black Phone 2 because they realized the Grabber was too good for just one movie
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If you’ve seen the 2021 film The Black Phone, you might be wondering how they were able to make a sequel. After all, the film ends with the Grabber’s death, yet Black Phone 2 is currently playing in theaters. It turns out that Blumhouse Productions thought the Grabber, dead or not, still had some unexplored potential.
“What really inspired me to make a sequel was the great Scott Derrickson,” Blumhouse Productions founder Jason Blum says during a panel at New York Comic Con. “I got a very happy phone call [from Scott] two or three months after the first movie came out, and he said, ‘You know, I’ve been thinking about this, and I think two things. I think there’s a much bigger story to tell and a much bigger universe in Black Phone.’”
“The second thing he said, which I thought and I think you guys will all agree, is that the Grabber is kind of building in excitement, and specialness, and horribleness, and evilness in a way that he can’t be through in one movie. So, when he said that, I said, 'Well, we would love to make a second one!' and 'Get writing!' And he did, and that’s the movie you guys will see very soon.”
Black Phone 2 is currently playing in theaters nationwide.
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