{"id":35117,"date":"2025-09-21T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35117\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:07:08","slug":"hayden-panettiere-to-return-as-kirby-reed-in-scream-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35117\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere to Return as Kirby Reed in &#8216;Scream 7&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hayden Panettiere will reprise her role as Kirby Reed in Scream 7, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/cast-of-nashville-then-and-now-11812836\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fan-favorite character was first introduced as the horror-loving sidekick-turned-survivor in Scream 4. She returned in Scream VI, now an FBI special agent.<\/p>\n<p>EW reports that Panettiere will \u201cteam up with Neve Campbell\u2018s Sidney Prescott\u201d for the latest installment in the slasher saga.<\/p>\n<p>Due out on February 27, 2026, Scream 7 is directed by original Scream writer Kevin Williamson from a script by Guy Busick (Scream\u00a02022, Scream VI).<\/p>\n<p>Panettiere and Campbell aren\u2019t the only familiar faces returning; they\u2019ll be joined by Courteney Cox, Mason Gooding, Jasmin Savoy Brown, David Arquette, <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3901329\/matthew-lillard-teases-scream-7-return-its-not-gonna-ruin-the-franchise\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Lillard<\/a>, and Scott Foley.<\/p>\n<p>Isabel May, Joel McHale, Mckenna Grace, Celeste O\u2019Connor, Sam Rechner, Asa Germann, Anna Camp, Ethan Embry, Mark Consuelos, Michelle Randolph, and Jimmy Tatro round out the cast.<\/p>\n<p>The plot is expected to focus on Sidney Prescott and her family approximately two years after the events of Scream VI.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3902209\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3902208\/hayden-panettiere-to-return-as-kirby-reed-in-scream-7\/attachment\/scream6-haydenpanettiere\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/scream6-HaydenPanettiere-scaled.jpg?fit=1852%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1852,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"scream6-HaydenPanettiere\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/scream6-HaydenPanettiere-scaled.jpg?fit=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/scream6-HaydenPanettiere-scaled.jpg?fit=740%2C1023&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/scream6-HaydenPanettiere-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"1023\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere will reprise her role as Kirby Reed in Scream 7, according to EW. The fan-favorite character&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,20592,61,60,270,21490],"class_list":["post-35117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-hayden-panettiere","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-scream-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}