The Black Phone 2 director Scott Derrickson teases one major difference to the upcoming sequel that makes it “more graphic, scarier” than the first. The Black Phone ended by bringing its middle school coming-of-age tale full circle, with Finney (Mason Thames) killing The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) with the phone he was using to commune with his previous victims. The upcoming sequel will see the protagonist return under new circumstances, though the exact details of what will happen in the film remain under wraps. But, with major character returns confirmed, many elements will feel familiar.
Speaking with GamesRadar+, Derrickson revealed one key difference in The Black Phone 2 will make the story “more graphic” and “scarier” than the original movie. The director explained how the the film’s focus as being about high school rather than middle school necessitated a darker, more adult storyline than the first movie. However, he promised this would be illustrated in how the characters are established in the new movie, adding to these important elements. Check out what Derrickson had to say below:
The main difference is that it’s a high school coming of age movie, in the same way that the original movie was a middle school coming of age movie, but those are two very different sorts of things. You know, a high school coming-of-age movie demands more. It has to be more visceral. It has to be, I think, more graphic, scarier.
I think that the change that occurs in human beings between middle school and high school, that’s some of the biggest change you go through in your life. And so to be able to revisit these characters who’ve really developed as people in the four years between the movies was also very interesting to me.
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Source: GamesRadar+