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    Scott Derrickson

    American screenwriter and film director

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  2. Producer: The Black Phone. Scott Derrickson is an American filmmaker who is known for directing horror films such as Deliver Us from Evil, Hellraiser: Inferno, Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. He also directed the superhero film Doctor Strange starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

    • January 1, 1
    • 2 min
    • Denver, Colorado, USA
  3. Interview: Filmmaker Scott Derrickson on Horror, Faith, Chesterton and Deliver Us From Evil The director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose — and Marvel’s recruit to direct Doctor Strange — talks about mystery, Catholicism, confronting evil and his new film, Deliver Us From Evil .

  4. Mini Bio. Scott Derrickson is an American filmmaker who is known for directing horror films such as Deliver Us from Evil, Hellraiser: Inferno, Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. He also directed the superhero film Doctor Strange starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

    • July 16, 1966
    • Hellraiser: Inferno
    • The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    • Sinister
    • Deliver Us from Evil
    • The Black Phone

    "My reach extended my grasp, or whatever that phrase is. I was reaching for something that was too much. The budget that I had for that movie didn't fit the script, that's for sure. But I also had a lot to learn about how to make something scary. That said, I like the uniqueness of that movie. I think that, for the Hellraiserfranchise, it's a great...

    "The making of the movie was an amazing experience. My son had just been born. We shot it in Vancouver — first time shooting in a foreign city. That was all wonderful. I also think of the research phase as being one of the scariest experiences I've ever had. I read so many books on possession and exorcism, from all points of view, skeptical and rel...

    "That was such a satisfying experience. I had come off of a very bad experience shooting a big-budget film [2008's The Day The Earth Stood Still]. Jason [Blum] gave me $3 million and final cut, so I had total control, and it was so refreshing as an artist. I didn't know if the movie was going to succeed or not but I knew that it was going to be my ...

    "Being really cold is the first thing that comes to mind. Every night we shot, it was freezing cold rain, in the Bronx, a lot of it exterior. That was a very difficult shoot, certainly the most difficult physical production, and in some ways even emotional production, that I've had. Critics didn't like it. I think it had the wrong release date. I s...

    "When I left Doctor Strange 2, I had been in therapy, really dealing with trauma from my own childhood, and violence from my own childhood, for about three years. [I] was kind of on the tail end of doing that, and was thinking about trying to write a story that's kind of like an American 400 Blows, like the François Truffaut film, which was autobio...

  5. Jun 20, 2022 · June 20, 2022. After scoring a hit with the Marvel movie “Doctor Strange” in 2016, the director Scott Derrickson started working on its sequel, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” In...

  6. Oct 23, 2023 · Scott Derrickson survived his first home invasion when he was 6 years old. "I had gone down the street to a friend's house," the Colorado born-and-raised director of horror hits like Sinister and ...

  7. Jun 21, 2022 · Six years after directing the Marvel blockbuster “Doctor Strange,” Scott Derrickson is returning to his roots with “The Black Phone,” an intimate, low-budget horror movie that hearkens back to...

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