Universal, Blumhouse Dates The Black Phone 2 For Summer 2025

Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone has a sequel officially set, with Universal & Blumhouse charting a summer 2025 release. Variety reports that The Black Phone 2 is set to release on June 27th, 2025 in what the two studios call the “launch of a sinister new franchise.”

The Black Phone was a breakout success for Universal and Blumhouse when it released last year. Starring Ethan Hawke and Mason Thames, the film (adapted from Joe Hill’s short story) was set in the late 1970s and focused on a young boy named Finney (Thames) who is abducted by a serial child murderer known as “The Grabber” (Hawke). Trapped in the killer’s basement, Finney uses a mysterious phone to communicate with the spirits of the Grabber’s previous victims and formulate a plan of escape. Meanwhile, his sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) is having psychic visions that may lead her to her brother’s location.

The film grossed $161.4 million worldwide against a budget of just $17 million. It’s not yet clear whether Derrickson will be directing again, though he did post the news on his Twitter account so he will presumably be iunvolved in some way. Derrickson previously passed on directing the sequel to his 2012 horror film Sinister, though he did write the script for the sequel.

There has also been no casting announcements or plot details announced for the film.

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