The Scream 7 cast continues to grow with the latest addition, Mckenna Grace. Horror fans will recognize projects like The Haunting of Hill House, Annabelle Comes Home, and the two recent Ghostbusters films: Afterlife and Frozen Empire.
Deadline reports that Grace has joined the cast alongside other franchise newcomers like Asa Germann, Isabel May, and Celeste O'Connor, but their roles in the project are being kept under wraps, as is the film's overall storyline.
All we really know so far about Scream 7 is that Neve Campbell is returning as final girl Sidney Prescott. May, an actress best known for starring in Yellowstone spinoffs 1883 and 1923, will play Sidney's daughter, though that is the only detail about the new characters that has been provided thus far.
Scream 7 will be released in theaters on February 26, 2026, with original screenwriter Kevin Williamson stepping up to direct one of the meta-slasher films for the first time in the franchise's history. Guy Busick will write the script.
Even though Scream 6 was released in 2023 and performed very well at the box office, the franchise has since been overshadowed by controversy after production company Spyglass Media Group fired star Melissa Barrera. Barrera's co-star, Jenna Ortega, exited the project soon after. It doesn't look like any of the newer main characters from the previous two films will return, despite surviving, including Jasmin Savoy-Brown and Mason Gooding, who played twins Mindy and Chad Meeks-Martin.
Given the stormcloud hanging over the film series in the wake of Barrera's firing, a decision many fans feel was unfair, it's hard to get too excited about the seventh movie. This is especially true since so many of us were really excited to see what was next for Sam (Barrera) and Tara Carpenter (Ortega).
Scream 7 will reportedly be a soft reboot of the series of sorts, refocusing on its original legacy characters, but technically the franchise already did that with Scream 5, so it's hard to see how this film will take things in a new direction without becoming stale.
Grace has many high-profile films currently in the works in addition to the slasher film, among them the psychological thriller Straight Lies and the next Colleen Hoover adaptation, Regretting You.
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