Will there be a Black Phone 3? The sequel's writer and director weigh in

Wes Craven and New Line Cinema turned Nightmare on Elm Street into a nine-film franchise, complete with novels, comics, a video game, and a TV spin-off. Could The Black Phone have the same staying power? Could this become a long-running horror series like the Freddy Krueger movies, but with longer-lived protagonists instead of a new batch of Freddy-chum in every installment? Before any of that, the first question would be, “Will there be a Black Phone 3?”