Director Scott Derrickson has revealed the setting for ‘The Shining’ straight impressed his upcoming movie ‘Black Cellphone 2’.
The 58-year-old filmmaker is bringing again little one adductor The Grabber – performed by Ethan Hawke – following the success of his 2022 supernatural horror, which was primarily based on the characters featured in Joe Hill’s assortment of brief tales ‘twentieth Century Ghosts’.
The sequel is partly set at a spot generally known as Alpine Lake Youth Camp and that wintery setting within the Rocky Mountains is similar location as The Overlook Resort that sends Jack Torrance mad in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror traditional which relies on Stephen King’s ebook of the identical title.
Derrickson additionally wished to acknowledge the custom of college camp horror movies – the most well-liked franchise being ‘Friday the thirteenth’ which is ready at Camp Crystal Lake summer season camp.
In an interview with Collider, Derrickson stated: “I actually like to make use of climate as a personality if I’ve a chance to do it, so the winter, Rocky Mountain camp surroundings was additionally an inspiration for me to say sure to doing the film. In fact, you’ve got obtained ‘The Shining’ that you simply’re drawing on as a result of that was The Overlook Resort in Estes Park, Colorado, the place they filmed the outside of that.
“And, in fact, you’ve got obtained the little custom of camp horror, but it surely’s nearly all the time summer season camp. There aren’t a whole lot of winter camp films. I went to each as a highschool child, and it was all the time the winter camps that have been extra highly effective and memorable.”
Derrickson additionally revealed that he put a lot of his personal faculty experiences into ‘The Black Cellphone’ and the sequel – which is ready 4 years after the occasions of the primary movie.
He added: “It is actually drawing on my expertise as a excessive schooler. I poured a lot of my childhood and early center faculty years into ‘The Black Cellphone’. “In highschool, as I obtained older, I spent increasingly more time within the Rocky Mountains. I would ski each weekend, and I spent a whole lot of time at these winter camps that they’ve up there. They’re actually unbelievable experiences. To be within the violence of that climate, the blizzards and all of that, the great thing about the encompassing mountains, to be in a number of toes of snow on a regular basis, there’s one thing mesmerizingly highly effective about that.”
Derrickson admits the passage of time for the story was a significant factor in him agreeing to make a sequel as he may discover what the results of the primary movie’s plot had on Mason Thames’ character Finney and Madeleine McGraw’s alter ego Gwen.
He stated: “As quickly as the primary film was successful, Common was asking me to make a sequel, hoping I would make a sequel. I did not really feel obliged to do this, however I actually wasn’t going to do it if I did not have a purpose to do it past any form of money seize. So I used to be on the lookout for an concept, and Joe Hill emailed me a pitch for a sequel. A few of it I did not reply to, however there was an concept inside that electronic mail that I believed was improbable that I had by no means considered. So, I began to noodle on that concept.
“Then, actually, what made me determine to go forward and commit to creating a sequel was that I realised if I went and made one other film first and did not go straight right into a sequel, which I am certain everyone would have appreciated, if I waited and made one other film first, then these children can be in highschool.
“That grew to become a really thrilling prospect to me to have the ability to proceed with these characters, however in a extremely totally different section of their lives, each as characters and as actors. These children would actually be in highschool, and we’d make a highschool coming-of-age horror movie versus a center faculty film. As soon as I had that concept, I feel that is once I dedicated to doing it.”
‘Black Cellphone 2’ can be launched in cinemas in October 2025.
