Scott Derrickson
Birthdate: Jul 16, 1966
Birthplace: Denver, Colorado, USA
Horror and Science Fiction specialist Scott Derrickson is known for juggling tasks on successful projects, including The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), and Doctor Strange (2016). He frequently writes, directs, and produces his films, including The Black Phone (2022), with Ethan Hawke and Jeremy Davies. Scott Derrickson established his name in the increasingly hot genre of horror with his script for Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), and in the same year, he came out with his writing-directing debut, Hellraiser: Inferno (2000), with Craig Sheffer.
Derrickson’s next work as screenwriter shifted in a non-genre direction, with a script for Wim Wenders’ contemporary Western, Land of Plenty (2004), but then returned successfully to horror as writer-director of the box office hit, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, with Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and Campbell Scott. Derrickson’s first assignment purely as director (and his first on a big-budget movie) was the top-earning remake, The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), with Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, and John Cleese.
Derrickson’s first collaboration with Ethan Hawke was the horror film Sinister (2012), which also starred Juliet Rylance and James Ransone, followed by another variation on the exorcism theme, Deliver Us from Evil (2014), featuring Eric Bana and Edgar Ramirez. In between, Derrickson co-wrote the script for Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot (2013), based on the trial case of “The West Memphis Three,” with Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon.
Scott Derrickson graduated to the big-budget Marvel Comics Universe in 2016 with Doctor Strange, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Mads Mikkelsen, Tilda Swinton, and Michael Stuhlbarg, reaching a worldwide gross of nearly $678 million. Similarly, as he did on Sinister 2 (2015), in which he opted not to direct and instead write and produce, Derrickson chose to serve only as executive producer for the sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).
Derrickson was writer-producer-director on the Blumhouse-produced child abduction horror movie, The Black Phone (2021), starring Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke, James Ransone, and Jeremy Davies. Derrickson was director/producer of the Apple TV+ sci-fi action movie, The Gorge (2025), starring Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Sigourney Weaver, based on Zach Dean’s screenplay and co-produced by Derrickson’s company, Crooked Highway.
Derrickson was director/co-writer/producer of the horror sequel following the hit original, Black Phone 2 (2025), starring Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke, Madeleine McGraw, Demian Bichir, Jeremy Davies, and Arianna Rivas, produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions and Derrickson’s Crooked Highway, and released wide by Universal Pictures after premiering at Fantastic Fest.
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Personal life
Born in Denver, Colorado, Scott Derrickson graduated from the Christian-based Biola University with double Bachelor of Arts degrees in humanities (literature and philosophy emphasis) and communication (theology and film emphasis). He attended USC’s School of Cinematic Arts for graduate work. Derrickson has two children.
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- 2025 |
Black Phone 2
As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, his sister begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake.
- 2022 |
The Black Phone
After being abducted and locked in a basement, a boy starts receiving calls on a disconnected phone from the killer's previous victims.
- 2016 |
Doctor Strange
While on a journey of physical and spiritual healing, a brilliant neurosurgeon is drawn into the world of the mystic arts.
- 2014 |
- 2012 |
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