This yr’s Scream film canonically confirmed that Hayden Panettiere’s fan favourite franchise individual Kirby Reed did now not die in 2011’s Scream 4. It has now been announced by way of Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media that the actress will reprise the function within the next film of the horror series. Panettiere will be a part of 4 lately-confirmed solid contributors from the 2022 Scream: Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, and Jenna Ortega.
In Scream 4, Kirby Reed is a high faculty scholar who is time and again stabbed with the aid of Rory Culkin’s person Charlie Walker. Fans of the series lengthy-debated whether or not or now not Reed died because the end result of her wounds. The most recent Scream made clean that she lived via the identify of a in brief-glimpsed YouTube video which recognized Panettiere’s individual as a “Woodsboro survivor.”
Scream four (2011) Hayden Panettiere
Gemma La Mana Hayden Panettiere in Scream 4
The subsequent Scream movie, that’s currently untitled, will attention on the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they go away Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter. Principal pictures is slated to begin this summer season on the film which is set to be released in theaters March 31, 2023.
The 5 confirmed solid members will be joining the equal behind-the-camera crew answerable for the most recent Scream, with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett directing from a script by using James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. The movie’s govt manufacturers encompass Chad Villella (a member of the Radio Silence creative collective along Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett) and Kevin Williamson, who wrote the first actual movie in the franchise, 1996’s Wes Craven-directed Scream. The previous movie within the series became launched in January and grossed $81 million at the domestic field office.
In March, Ortega defined making the most recent Scream as “so nerve-wracking, however in all likelihood the maximum magical experience I’ve ever had on a hard and fast, just due to the forged. I nevertheless talk to all of them every week. We’re in steady communique. I’ve never felt so cherished and supported throughout a assignment. To be one of these fan of the franchise earlier, and so as to interact with Ghostface your self, turned into simply an amazing experience. I feel very fortunate.”
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