Ethan Hawke to star in Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone

Hollywood star Ethan Hawke will probably be enjoying the lead function in director Scott Derrickson’s upcoming horror film Black Cellphone.

Based on Selection, the film is predicated on Joe Hill’s horror novella of the identical title. Derrickson will co-write the screenplay with Robert Cargill.

The novella focuses on a lifeless cinephile, a lonely child, an eight-foot-tall locust and a person locked in a basement stained with the blood of murdered kids. There’s additionally an outdated, disconnected phone that rings at evening with calls from the lifeless.

Derrickson and Cargill may also produce the movie together with Blumhouse’s Jason Blum.

Hill will function an govt producer.

Hawke most lately starred in Blumhouse’s Showtime sequence The Good Lord Fowl, which the actor additionally govt produced and co-wrote.

The actor will subsequent star in filmmaker Robert Egger’s The Northman, co-starring Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgard, and Abel Ferrara’s upcoming movie Zeros and Ones.