Let’s face it, baby, these days you gotta have a sequel! And following the release of Scream OG Kevin Williamson’s Scream 7, which — despite experiencing a troubled production, marred by several controversies — has raked in a franchise-best $204 million at the global box office, it will surely come as no surprise that Deadline has today confirmed Scream 8 is officially in the works at Spyglass. And, what’s more, we already know who’ll be writing the slasher saga’s latest instalment.
After the Williamson and Guy Busick penned Scream 7, which brought Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott back into the franchise’s fold some 15 years after her last appearance in Scream 4, sisters Nora and Lilla Zuckerman — of Poker Face and, most recently, that cancelled Buffy The Vampire Slayer reboot fame — have come aboard to pen the saga’s eighth instalment. We don’t yet have any steer on where the Zuckerman sisters are heading with Ghostface’s latest appearance, but given the enthusiastic fan response to Scream 7 — which leant into nostalgia for a more comfortable and straightforward, somewhat less meta slasher joint — it would be very surprising not to see Campbell, Courteney Cox etc. return for more masked murderer hijinks.
With Mike Flanagan’s new Exorcist movie currently shooting, Scary Movie 6 inbound this summer, the Oscars finally embracing horror, and no shortage of buzzy horror projects elsewhere on the horizon (did you see that new Backrooms trailer earlier today?), the genre appears to have arrived into a new golden age. Only time will tell how Scream 8 carves out its place in this chiller renaissance.
