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She’ll be proper again! Hayden Panettiere is set to reprise her role as fan preferred Kirby Reed in the Scream franchise’s sixth installment.
The actor, who’s perhaps fine regarded for playing Claire Bennet in Heroes, will seem alongside fellow acquainted faces Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, and Courteney Cox within the new film.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, predominant images is scheduled to begin this summer time, with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett – who helmed the sequel’s predecessor –ready to direct. James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick are also returning to co-write the screenplay.
For now, plot details are being stored firmly under wraps, but we do know that the film will “hold with the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they leave Woodsboro at the back of and begin a sparkling chapter.”
Panettiere turned into first added as scary movie buff Kirby in Scream 4, way returned in 2011 – and regardless of the individual having a nasty run-in with Ghostface inside the movie, she survived.
Scream (2022) subtly showed that she become nevertheless alive in a blink-and-you will-miss-it Easter egg. The scene sees Jack Quaid’s Richie looking clips of the fictional Stab films on his laptop and, in the cautioned motion pictures column, there’s a thumbnail for a Bloody Disgusting interview “with survivor Kirby Reed”.
The film itself noticed final female Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) take a piece of a backseat, as Barrera’s Sam Carpenter discovered herself the goal of a brand new mask-carrying killer. As it stands, Campbell has yet to formally sign up to the approaching film.
Scream 6 is due to release on March 31, 2023. While we wait, take a look at out our list of fine horror movies for some viewing concept.
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