Anna Lore has joined ‘The Black Cellphone 2’.
The 32-year-old actress will seem in director Scott Derrickson’s upcoming horror flick for Common Footage – which is a sequel to the filmmaker’s 2021 film ‘The Black Cellphone’ – alongside Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies and Miguel Mora.
In addition to the ‘Remaining Vacation spot: Bloodlines’ star, ‘The Black Cellphone 2’ may even welcome newcomers Demián Bichir and Arianna Rivas.
No particulars in regards to the character Lore can be portraying in ‘The Black Cellphone 2’ are recognized but.
‘The Black Cellphone 2’ – which is slated to land in cinemas in October 2025 – has been co-written by Derrickson and Robert Cargill, who’re additionally producing alongside Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum.
In ‘The Black Cellphone’, 13-year-old Finney Shaw (Thames) is kidnapped by a sadistic killer generally known as The Grabber (Hawke) and held captive in a soundproof basement, the place he discovers a disconnected black cellphone that mysteriously allows him to speak with the voices of the killer’s earlier victims – every providing clues to assist him survive and escape.
Its sequel will reportedly see The Grabber search revenge on the youngsters from the unique movie from past the grave.
Beforehand, Derrickson insisted he “didn’t really feel obliged” to make a sequel to ‘The Black Cellphone’.
When Display Rant requested the director what followers might count on from ‘The Black Cellphone 2’, Derrickson stated: “A number of surprises, for certain.
“I simply completed taking pictures ‘Black Cellphone 2’, and what I can inform you is that I did not really feel obliged to make a sequel. It wasn’t a foregone conclusion that I might make a sequel.”
The ‘Physician Unusual’ director described ‘The Black Cellphone 2’ as a “highschool coming-of-age film” now that the unique’s younger forged – together with Thames and McGraw – had aged out of their “middle-school” roles from the primary flick.
He defined: “I noticed that if I made an enormous film after ‘Black Cellphone’, which was ‘The Gorge’, by the point I used to be able to shoot one other movie, all these youngsters would’ve been in highschool.
“So, it is principally a highschool coming-of-age film in the identical approach that the primary film was a center faculty coming-of-age movie.”
Derrickson stated he would solely take into account making a follow-up to ‘The Black Cellphone’ if it carried out effectively on the field workplace.
Forward of the film’s launch in 2021, the filmmaker instructed TheWrap: “It isn’t one thing that’s innately thrilling to me, within the case of this story. I am within the characters we created, and I feel there is a tone to the film that’s distinctive and might be expanded upon.
“So probably, we’ll see. You by no means know, however I am actually not closed off to the thought.”
On a manufacturing finances of roughly $18 million, ‘The Black Cellphone’ grossed $161.4 million on the field workplace worldwide.
