Melissa Barrera and Scream Workforce Making Common Monster Film

Radio Silence—administrators Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and producer Chad Villella—efficiently rebooted one in all horror’s largest franchises with Scream and Scream VI. Now they’ve tapped the star of these movies, Melissa Barrera, to affix one other film reviving a beloved property from horror’s previous, within the type of a mysterious Universal Monster mission.

Deadline broke the information of this glorious re-team, although sadly there are treasured few different particulars about what’s at present titled “Untitled Monster Thriller,” which has a script by Stephen Shields (The Gap within the Floor) that was revised by Man Busick (Prepared or Not, Scream, Scream VI). The commerce notes that Radio Silence has been growing this movie for awhile—it’ll be a part of Common’s post-Dark Universe push towards standalone releases (see: The Invisible Man, Renfield) utilizing its traditional monsters in contemporary, modernized tales—however the success of Scream and its shortly greenlit follow-up meant that they had Ghostface-adjacent commitments to take care of first.

In keeping with Deadline, “Whereas they started assembly with different expertise, it grew to become evident fairly shortly that Barrera was the right match for the position following two profitable shoots with the rising star and provided her the half.” After this mission, you may go forward and exchange “rising star” with “scream queen.” There’s no phrase but on after we can anticipate this one to drop—might it presumably come collectively as quickly as Scream VI did?—however our primary concern in the mean time is which monster from among the many Common firmament will likely be headlining this one. We’re additionally hoping this mission will make Radio Silence neglect about that Escape From New York reboot they just lately added to their schedule.

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