With shooting set to kick off this summer, the sequel to this year's hit Scream relaunch/soft rebootquel is gathering its cast at a quick pace. The latest recruit has some history with the franchise – Scream 4's Hayden Panettiere is back for more terror.
Panettiere, of course, played Kirby Reed in the 2011 sequel, one of the teenagers in that movie who actually managed to escape the killing spree of Ghostface. She was badly wounded, but survived her encounter.
Panettiere joins the returning likes of Melissa Barrera (Sam Carpenter), Jasmin Savoy Brown (Mindy Meeks-Martin), Mason Gooding (Chad Meeks-Martin) and Jenna Ortega (Tara Carpenter), whose characters are moving out of Woodsboro to try and start the next chapter of their lives.
Unknown for now is whether Courteney Cox and Neve Campbell – who have been with the Scream franchise from the start and helped out the last time – will also be back.
The next Scream – whether or not it's called Scream 2 or some cleverer name – has James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick once more writing the script and directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett again marshalling the madness. Who will survive, and what will be left of... sorry, wrong franchise.