It’s déjà vu, all over again.

Christopher Landon, the director of the time-loop horror Happy Death Day (and its sequel, the time-travel science-fiction slasher Happy Death Day 2U) will be the next in line to direct the oft-resurrected Ghostface in Scream VII.

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the filmmaking team known as Radio Silence who were behind the camera for the last two movies, are stepping down from the director’s chair. The duo behind 2019’s Ready or Not starring Samara Weaving are said to be working on an original horror film for Universal, starring Melissa Barrera, who starred in their projects Scream (2022) and Scream VI.

Scream franchise stars Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera and Mason Gooding do not have contracts for the new film, which is to be expected as the SAG-AFTRA strike continues, but Barrera and Gooding are expecter to return per The Hollywood Reporter.

No screenwriter has yet been named for the project, thought it could either be James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick, who penned the last two Scream scripts, or Landon himself. The director wrote the scripts for his Happy Death Day movies, Freaky and last year’s We Have a Ghost for Netflix. That announcement will remain pending while the WGA strike continues.

Radio Silence along with their partner Chad Villella will remain on as executive producers. Paramount is expected back as distributor. 

Scream VI 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. Wes Craven directed the first four Scream movies, with Kevin Williamson penning the original Scream, released in 1996. That film started the trend of horror films that delivered meta commentary while most of the cast gets murdered, and centered on the hunt for a revolving door of killers who all went by the name Ghostface, as they slashed their way through a cadre of teenage victims while draped in black and wearing a creepy white mask.