'Scream 7' Goes Live, Casting Mark Consuelos
All my children scream live at the lodge. The former soap star joins a loaded cast, already with filming stories
You know what they say about actors and movies: They’ve got to Hiram. Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media’s Scream 7 has done exactly that, casting Mark Consuelos in an unknown role.
Filming began earlier this month, but the horror sequel’s plot is still unknown. While Consuelos’s character hasn’t been officially announced, franchise newsers picked up that he is playing Robbie, a new reporter that “bothers Gale Weathers while she's in town”. The character description mentioned being an older Hispanic man. Consuelos is currently best known as the co-host of Live with Kelly and Mark with wife Kelly Ripa, who met when starring as Mateo Santos and Hayley Vaughan on the ABC soap opera All My Children, where he starred from 1995 to 2002. They are the reigning winners of the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host. On Live Monday, he recounted shooting a movie in Atlanta before it shut down for the day due to what would be considered minor snowfall by New York standards. The dots were connected.
On film, Consuelos has appeared in My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Cop Out, and Nine Lives. His other biggest television role was easily as multibillionaire CEO Hiram Lodge father to Veronica on the CW Archie Comics drama Riverdale, a series regular for the second through fifth seasons, guest for the latter two and an episode of Katy Keene. Other significant television roles include Missing, American Horror Story: Asylum, Alpha House, Pitch The Night Shift, The Girls on the Bus, and the animated series Primos.
The actor joins a cast that sees Neve Campbell return as Sidney Prescott after sitting out Scream VI in search of better pay. She reunites with Courteney Cox as Gale, as well as Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding as her late friend Randy’s twin niece and nephew Mindy and Chad Meeks-Martin. For the first time she’s involving her husband, Mark Evans played by Joel McHale and her daughter played by Isabel May. Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, McKenna Grace, Anna Camp and Sam Rechner still don’t have names for their characters revealed, though Camp and Rechner are reportedly playing mother and son.
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. He replaces the departed Christopher Landon. Guy Busick, who wrote Scream and Scream VI with James Vanderbilt is going solo this time while Vanderbilt is busy with other commitments. 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. A $900 million franchise, it’s coming off its highest performance yet, with the franchise domestic box office record with more than $108 million and more than $169 million globally.
Source: Deadline