Screen Gems has hired Scott Derrickson, fresh off his triumph with The Black Phone as director, as well as his longtime writing colleague C. Robert Cargill and producer Sherryl Clark, to create Room 428. The brother’s Brett and Drew Pierce of The Wretched is writing and directing the supernatural horror film, but information about the narrative is being kept under wraps. Derrickson, who has worked with Screen Gems before on movies like “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” and “Deliver Us from Evil,” is also coming back to the company for this project. The Black Phone is the most current film from the creative team, and Derrickson directed it using a story he co-wrote with Cargill.
With a budget of only $16–18 million, the film starring Ethan Hawke and newcomer Mason Thames took in $143 million at the box office and has an 83% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. After departing from Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange sequel, Derrickson began production on The Black Phone. He compared his time spent filming The Black Phone with his time spent filming the 2016 Doctor Strange film, saying, When talking about a smaller, more limited horror picture, where you can truly act as an auteur, it’s different from making a movie like Doctor Strange. Everything rests on your shoulders. The film is a supernatural thriller about a little boy named Finney who is kidnapped by a mysterious man with a mask and held captive in a basement equipped with soundproofing.
He discovers a ringing, unconnected phone on the wall. The other camp includes survivors of Finney’s killer who are adamant that he be released from prison. The movie’s critical and economic success appears to have encouraged the three directors to make another spooky film. The Wretched, a horror film starring John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Zarah Mahler, and others, was recently directed by the Pierce brothers for IFC. An adolescent kid dealing with the breakup of his parents and a thousand-year-old witch who has possessed his next-door neighbour are the central characters in this film.
The film was the first to keep the top place at the U.S. box office for six consecutive weeks since James Cameron’s Avatar in 2009. After the film’s release on Netflix, it quickly climbed into the ranks of the country’s most-watched movies. The pair also helmed the 2011 zombie flick Deadheads. There are currently no further details available regarding Room 428.