Mckenna Grace-led Bad Seed sequel to premiere on Lifetime in 2022

Talented young actress Mckenna Grace is set to reprise her role as Emma in the Lifetime sequel to the hit 2018 thriller The Bad Seed, 1428 Elm has learned. Grace will co-write the film in addition to starring and executive producing.

At just 15 years old, Grace has become well-known in the horror community thanks to her roles in projects like Annabelle Comes Home, Malignant, The Haunting of Hill House, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and her upcoming role in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

The upcoming Bad Seed sequel is based on a script that Grace wrote with her father, Ross Burge. The 2018 film writer, Barbara Marshall, also wrote on the project. Grace is executive producing alongside her father, her mother Crystal Burge, and Mark Wolper.

Mckenna Grace-led Bad Seed sequel to premiere on Lifetime in 2022

Rob Lowe starred in the original movie opposite of Grace and it was based on the novel of the same name by William March and the play by Maxwell Anderson. The new film is scheduled for a 2022 premiere.

“When Mckenna came to us with a spec script she wrote, we were blown away with her vision for the next installment and thrilled we could greenlight it and reteam with her and Mark Wolper,” said Tanya Lopez, EVP, Scripted Content. “This is an incredible Broader Focus moment to have such in a talented young star stretch her abilities beyond acting into writing and executive producing.”

Bad Seed sequel synopsis

In the sequel, 15-year-old Emma seems like a normal teenager but is really anything but. Set several years after the events of the first movie which left her father (played by Lowe) dead, Emma has moved in with her aunt Angela and struggling to make it through the highs and lows of high school.

It doesn’t take long for her uncle, Angela’s husband, to realize there is something off about Emma. Perhaps she’s not as innocent as she appears. he suggests sending her off to boarding school. Meanwhile, at school, a new girl appears to know a few secrets about Emma’s past forcing Emma to resort to her old tactics to get rid of her enemies by any means possible.