Four New Additions to the Scream TV Series

We recently reported the official core cast and director for MTV's Scream pilot, based on director Wes Craven and writer Kevin Williamson's self aware and scary film series. Now the show is really taking shape with the announcement of four additions to the cast, one of whom is a favorite among fans of AMC's The Killing and is replacing a previously attached actress.

Bex Taylor-Klaus, who played Bullet in season 3 of AMC's The Killing and portrays Sin on The CW's Arrow, has now joined the cast of the Scream TV series. Taylor-Klaus will play Audrey Jensen (the former best friend of the show's main character, Emma), a role previously held by Amy Forsyth. Here are the four new additions and their character biographies (courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter):

• "Bex Taylor-Klaus plays Audrey Jensen... the daughter of a Lutheran pastor. She’s described as an artsy loner who aspires to be a filmmaker.

• Bobby Campo (The Final Destination) will recur as Seth Branson, the hot English teacher at Lakewood High who has an easy charm and is clearly one of the "cool" teachers, who can go with it if a lesson plan gets a little off-track.

• Connor Weil (Sharknado) will be a series regular and portray Will Belmont, an all-American high school basketball player who adores his girlfriend, Emma (Fitzgerald).

• Joel Gretsch (Witches of East End, V, The 4400) is set as Sheriff Clark Hudson, a good guy and good sheriff who is father to Kieran (Amadeus Serafini)."

The show’s pilot will be helmed by Jamie Travis (Faking It) off a script by Jay Beattie and Dan Dworkin (Criminal Minds, Revenge). Dimension Films and The Weinstein Co. are backing the project, with Harvey and Bob Weinstein executive producing along with Craven, Marianne Maddalena, and Cathy Konrad. Curiously, Kevin Williamson, whose clever scripts gave the Scream films a refreshing self-aware flavor all their own, is not involved on any level with the TV series.

The four new additions join a cast that includes Willa Fitzgerald (Royal Pains), who will star in the lead Sidney-like role, with John Karna (The Neighbors), Carlson Young (The Kroll Show), and newcomer Amadeus Serafini co-starring in the horror show. Below are their individual character bios:

• "Fitzgerald will star as Emma Duvall, a classic beauty whose looks and popularity hide a natural shyness and intellectual nature. Her new life with the “in crowd” leaves her estranged from her from childhood best friend, Audrey. The character is the lead in MTV’s Scream take and bears a resemblance to Neve Campbell’s tortured high school student Sidney Prescott in the 1996 feature film.

• Karna is set as Noah Foster, a creative computer genius with a vast knowledge of pop culture and the tech world. He’s best friends with Audrey.

• Young will portray Brooke Maddox, the charismatic leader of the popular crew whose personality vacillates between bubbly sweetness and ferocious sex appeal.

• Serafini will be Kieran Wilcox, the mysterious new kid in town with a dark side and a tough exterior that hint at experience beyond his years.”

We’ll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further news with MTV’s Scream TV series, such as the continued possibility of Wes Craven directing an episode, as this project moves along in production.

Bex Taylor-Klaus (as Bullet in The Killing):