Mckenna Grace To Write, Produce, and Star in a Sequel To Lifetime's THE BAD SEED
Lifetime is set to produce a sequel to its 2018 original movie The Bad Seed. Mckenna Grace (Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Annabelle Comes Home) starred in the original movie alongside Rob Lowe and she is set to reprise her role as Emma in the sequel.
Not only will she star in the film, she is also co-writing the script with her dad Ross Burge, and the original film’s writer, Barbara Marshall. Grace will also be an executive producer on the project and Louise Archambault (Catastrophe, This Life) is directing.
The Bad Seed is a reimagining of the cult 1956 psychological horror film that was based on the best-selling novel by William March and its stage adaptation by Maxwell Anderson.
In the first film, “when a tragedy takes place at his daughter's school, a man is forced to question everything he thought he knew about his beloved girl. He slowly begins to suspect that she played a role in the horrific incident.”
In the sequel, Grace plays 15-year-old Emma, “a seemingly typical teenaged girl who is anything but that. Set several years after the murderous events of the first movie which left her father (Lowe) dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to suspect that Emma may not be as innocent as she appears and suggests sending her off to boarding school. Meanwhile, a new girl at school seems to know Emma’s secrets, leaving Emma no choice but to slip back to her old ways and take care of her enemies by any means necessary.”
Tanya Lopez, Lifetime’s EVP, Scripted Content, said in a statement, “When Mckenna came to us with a spec script she wrote, we were blown away with her vision for the next installment and thrilled we could greenlight it and re-team with her and Mark Wolper. This is an incredible Broader Focus moment to have such in a talented young star stretch her abilities beyond acting into writing and executive producing.”
Grace is an extremely talented young actress, and it’s pretty cool to see her expanding on her creativity and skills with writing and producing.
The Bad Seed sequel will premiere in 2022.
Source: Deadline