{"id":125393,"date":"2022-09-16T06:30:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T05:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=125393"},"modified":"2022-09-16T06:30:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T05:30:56","slug":"mr-harrigans-phone-watch-the-trailer-for-netflixs-stephen-king-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/mr-harrigans-phone-watch-the-trailer-for-netflixs-stephen-king-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Harrigan&#8217;s Phone: Watch the trailer for Netflix&#8217;s Stephen King adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MuiTypography-root-139 jss47 jss184 jss47 Hawkins-Text-default jss185 jss187 jss194 MuiTypography-body1-141\">\n<p>Wow, iPhones can do anything these days. Even talk to the dead&#8230;? Based on the short story by Stephen King and produced by Blumhouse and Ryan Murphy, <em><strong>Mr Harrigan&#8217;s Phon<\/strong><\/em>e tells the story of a young boy who befriends an older recluse and finds himself able to communicate with him from the grave via an iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Un_ker71dg\" width=\"375\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When Craig, a young boy living in a small town (Jaeden Martell) befriends Mr. Harrigan, an older, reclusive billionaire (Donald Sutherland), the two begin to form an unlikely bond over their love of books and reading. But when Mr. Harrigan sadly passes away, Craig discovers that not everything is dead and gone and strangely finds himself able to communicate with his friend from the grave through the iPhone in this supernatural coming-of-age story that shows that certain connections are never lost.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the short story by Stephen King,<em>\u00a0<strong>Mr. Harrigan\u2019s Phone<\/strong><\/em> is directed and written by John Lee Hancock (<em><b>Saving Mr. Banks)<\/b><\/em> and produced by Ryan Murphy (<em><strong>American Horror Story<\/strong><\/em>), Jason Blum (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/cinema\/the-predominant-emotion-that-i-felt-as-a-kid-was-fear-director-scott-derrickson-on-the-black-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>The Black Phone<\/strong><\/em><\/a>) and Carla Hacken (<b>Hell or High Water)<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>The movie stars Jaeden Martell (<em><strong>It: Chapter Two<\/strong><\/em>), Donald Sutherland (<em><strong>The Hunger Games<\/strong><\/em>), Joe Tippett (<em><strong>The Morning Show<\/strong><\/em>), Kirby Howell-Baptiste (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/the-sandman-season-one-review-bring-me-a-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>The Sandman<\/strong><\/em><\/a>), Cyrus Arnold (<em><strong>The Exorcist<\/strong><\/em> TV Series), Colin O\u2019Brien, Thomas Francis Murphy (<em><strong>The Walking Dead<\/strong><\/em>) and Peggy J. Scott (<em><strong>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mr. Harrigan\u2019s Phone will be released on Netflix on 5 October. Watch more trailers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzZiC_sZdNZsdP4Rskmoudg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SciFiNow YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the short story by Stephen King about a boy who communicates with the dead via iPhone, check out the trailer for Mr Harrigan&#8217;s Phone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":125394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Entertainment","MSN_Publish_Option":true,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[7492],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHP_20211104_Unit_11655r.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125396,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125393\/revisions\/125396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}