McKenna Grace Joins 'Scream 7'
Who ya gonna call? Ghostface Busters!
Casting for Scream 7 has taken a Nocturna in the night. McKenna Grace, who has starred in the recent Ghostbusters films, has joined her next horror franchise as it brings focus back to original protagonist Sidney Prescott, played by Neve Campbell.
Plot details are still unknown, but the new film will also bring Prescott’s daughter into the action, played by Isabel May. Grace’s character isn’t known either, much like the previously-revealed Celeste O’Connor and Asa Germann. Filming was said to begin filming this month. However unlike the latter two, a casting like Grace’s is giving major “opening kill” vibes. Someone big enough to join the ranks of Samara Weaving and Tony Revolori, who had that honor in the previous film and has become a tradition since the first film’s opening scene with Drew Barrymore as Casey Becker. Heck maybe it’s all three of them. There only have ever been as high as two kills in a Scream opening.
Grace had a rather Disney start, starting by recurring on Crash & Bernstein with a few guest appearances on other sitcoms on the Channel, but she rose racking up roles as younger versions of characters, one of which includes Margot Robbie’s Tonya Harding in I, Tonya. She was also young Caroline Forbes, Emma Swan, Sabrina Spellman in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Carol Danvers, and voicing young Daphne Blake in Scoob! She’s also recurred in Mickey and the Roadster Racers, Designated Survivor and Fuller House, took over as Skye for Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie and starred in The Haunting of Hill House. She’s now easily best known as Phoebe Spengler in the pair of recent Ghostbusters films, and will next be seen in Nobody 2 with Bob Odenkirk and the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You opposite Allison Williams. She’s also started a singing career.
Kevin Williamson, who of the original four Wes Craven-directed films only missed out on writing the third, is back to direct, but is not writing this film. Guy Busick, who wrote Scream and Scream VI with James Vanderbilt is going solo this time while Vanderbilt is busy directing the feature Nuremberg. Vanderbilt, representing Project X Entertainment with William Sherak and Paul Neinstein are producing with Radio Silence, the directors of the fifth and sixth installments, serving as executive producers. Scream 7 is currently set for release on February 27, 2026.
Source: Deadline