It’s fitting that The Black Phone, an adaptation of Joe Hill’s short story, was shot in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Forty years ago, it was the fertile imagination of Hill’s father—Stephen King—that birthed the city’s film industry.
Needing a sprawling estate for an adaptation of King’s novel Firestarter, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis settled on an antebellum plantation in Wilmington.
Pleased with the experience, De Laurentiis made the coastal town his America base of operations, shooting three more King films there and constructing what is now Eue/Screen Gems Studios—the very soundstages that The Black […]The post Super 8 Dream Sequences and Jump Scares: Dp Brett Jutkiewicz on The Black Phone first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
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