Scream 8 In Development With Writers Behind Canceled Buffy Revival

Scream 8 is in development at Spyglass, so get ready for another Ghostface — or more.

via: Deadline

Spyglass is developing the eighth installment of the Scream franchise with Lilla and Nora Zuckerman writing.

The Zuckerman sisters most recently served as showrunners for the hit Peacock series Poker Face and have worked as writers and co-executive producers on popular series including Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Suits, Fringe and Prodigal Son.

The news comes as Scream 7 — which saw the franchise’s original scribe, Kevin Williamson, step behind the camera for the first time on the horror series — racked up over $200M at the global box office; it’s the first time a Scream movie has crossed that milestone in its 30-year existence. The seventhquel, which saw the return of Neve Campbell as Sidney, also opened to a franchise global record debut of $97.2M. The Paramount co-financed movie also starred Isabel May, Courteney Cox, Anna Camp, Joel McHale and Matthew Lillard.

The Zuckermans recently wrote a pilot for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer revamp, Buffy: New Sunnydale, which Chloe Zhao was expected to direct. The 20th Television and Searchlight Television pilot didn’t go forward.