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Ghostface has a new target. , best known for starring in prequels and , has nabbed the plum role of ’s daughter in and is in talks to star opposite the Queen. The seventh installment of the horror franchise, being made by , is in rebuilding mode after losing its young stars Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera.
Campbell, who sat out the previous installment due to , is back for the new feature that will focus on her character, Sidney Prescott, and her daughter. — the creator of the franchise who penned the script to the Wes Craven-directed original, as well as and — is directing. Guy Busick, who wrote 2022 and , wrote the script.
Pictures is set to release in theaters on Feb. 27, 2026. Project X Entertainment’s James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein serve as producers.
Campbell’s casting came as the new movie was in need of a creative reset. from the franchise last year following social media posts addressing the Israel-Hamas war, and the project months earlier. In the wake of these exits, the installment’s original director Christopher Landon .
Filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, known as Radio Silence, helped bring the series back to prominence with 2022’s . Last year’s , which the pair also directed, collected $166.3 million at the global box office.
Wes Craven directed the original 1996 film from the script that Williamson initially wrote on spec. Sidney has been at the heart of the franchise since that first movie, which also starred Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers and David Arquette as Dewey Riley. In addition to playing Elsa Dutton in and , May had a role in the 2022 rom-com feature and co-starred in the Apple TV+ series .
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