Blumhouse’s ‘The Black Phone 2’: Ethan Hawke & Original Cast Returning For Scott Derrickson Sequel

EXCLUSIVE: Four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke (The Northman), Mason Thames (How to Train Your Dragon, Incoming), Madeleine McGraw (Toy Story 4, Secrets of Sulphur Springs), Jeremy Davies (Justified) and Miguel Mora (The Black Phone) are set to return for Black Phone 2, the sequel to the hit 2022 Blumhouse-Crooked Highway Production-Universal production. A theatrical release of June 27, 2025 has been set.

The first movie, directed by Scott Derrickson and co-written by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill racked up over $161M worldwide, becoming a sleeper hit in a rebounding summer last year from Covid. The movie also made Deadline’s list of most profitable movies last year with an estimated net of $68M. The duo are back penning Black Phone 2 and are producing with Blumhouse’s Jason Blum.

In the first movie, a 13-year old boy, who is abducted by a child killer in a suburban neighborhood and locked in a soundproof basement, begins to receive calls on a disconnected phone from the killer’s previous victims. Derrickson and frequent collaborator Cargill (Doctor Strange, Sinister) adapted from Joe Hill’s short story. Hill is an EP on the sequel. Black Phone received high marks on Rotten Tomatoes with an 81% certified fresh critics score and 88% with audiences.

Black Phone 2 reps the ninth feature collaboration between Blum and Hawke after The Black Phone, The Purge, Sinister 1 & 2, In a Valley of Violence, Adopt a Highway, Hamlet, and Stockholm. Hawke originally worked with Derrickson on the Sinister franchise.

Derrickson is represented by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Ziffren Brittenham. Cargill is represented by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Hawke is represented by CAA, MGMT Entertainment and George Sheanshang. Thames is represented by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. McGraw is represented by Coast to Coast Talent Group, The Burstein Company and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham. Davies is represented by Zero Gravity Management & Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein. Mora is represented by Clear Talent Group.