'The Fabelmans' Actor Sam Rechner Joins 'Scream 7'
Bully for Woodsboro, the horror sequel’s casting continues
The casting keeps coming for Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group as Scream 7 builds its potential victim complex. Australian actor Sam Rechner has been cast, though as with the last three names, their character is unknown.
The influx of casting news in the last week has indicated that filming starting this month was close enough for all of this to be happening. No celebratory posts on Instagram yet though so we’ll see. Rechner’s breakout role was as Logan, Sammy Fabelman (played by Gabriel LaBelle)’s high school bully in Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans. He subsequently starred in the second season of Netflix’s Heartbreak High revival, essentially Australia’s equivalent of Canada’s Degrassi, this series easily giving Degrassi: The Next Generation vibes with even less sugarcoating. He recently wrapped on the film Out Come the Wolves with Giancarlo Esposito.
McKenna Grace Joins 'Scream 7'
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.
Scream 7 is set to be released on February 27, 2026. It shifts the focus back to Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott, and will also bring her daughter into the action, played by Isabel May. Rechner’s casting follows that of Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, and McKenna Grace, who are the three previously-alluded castings with unknown characters.
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.
Jeremy Allen White Goes From 'The Bear' To The Hutts In 'The Mandalorian & Grogu'
Jeremy Allen White is ready for his tenth Tatooine freeze-out. The Emmy-winning star of The Bear has joined the cast of the next Star Wars film, The Mandalorian & Grogu as the voice of Rotta the Hutt, Jabba’s son. The character was previously a focal point of the franchise’s only animated film thus far, 2008’s
Source: Deadline