The next installment in the Scream series looks to have landed a director as Happy Death Day helmer Christopher Landon has come on to direct the sequel. Spyglass Entertainment is producing the pic again and Landon will take over for over from Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the filmmaking team known as Radio Silence, who helped relaunch the franchise, directing the past two installments. They along with their partner Chad Villella will remain on as exec producers.
Paramount is expected back as distributor. The film currently has no writer, which won’ be solved as long as the WGA strike continues
Scream 6 bowed in March breaking franchise records by bringing in $168 million at the global box-office the previous installment brought in $137.7 million at the global box-office.
Landon has become highly-sought after on the director market after successfully directing the 2017 horror hit Happy Death Day for Universal. He most recently helmed the Netflix pic We Have A Ghost for Netflix.
He is repped by WME and Mosaic. Bloody Disgusting first reported the news.
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