Director Scott Derrickson with Thames on set.
JOE HILL’S SHORT story The Black Phone is just that: short. Around 30 pages, depending on which format you’re using. So when it came time for the writing duo of director Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill to adapt it for the big screen, they had to generate quite a bit of material themselves. Here, they talk Empire through some of the principles that guided them.