Hayden Panettiere To Return As Kirby Reed In ‘Scream 6’

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Hayden Panettiere, who played Kirby Reed in Wes Craven’s Scream 4, will return to the popular slasher franchise in the upcoming sixth installment after she missed out on this year’s Scream 5, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

We have already written about the Scream franchise on several occasions. The franchise started in 1996 with the original movie, and four sequels followed in 1997, 2000, 2011, and 2022, respectively. The latest installment was released earlier this year, it grossed $140 million against a $24 million budget, and received positive reviews for honoring the legacy of Wes Craven, a late director who directed the first four movies of the franchise before his death in 2015.

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Scream 6 was announced only one month after the latest installment was released, and it will be the second appearance in the franchise for Hayden Panettiere, who played Kirby Reed, a teenager and best friend of Jill, the movie’s main antagonist who was played by Emma Roberts. Panettiere’s performance as Kirby was praised by the critics and she has become one of the fan-favorite characters.

Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, and Jenna Ortega, who joined the franchise in Scream 5 and lived to tell the tale, were yesterday confirmed to return for the sixth movie, and it is expected that the franchise veterans Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Neve Campbell will also return, although that still needs to be officially confirmed. The production of the sixth movie will begin this summer.

Scream 6 is scheduled to be released on March 31, 2023.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.