Mckenna Grace And Ross Burge On Their Inspiration For The Bad Seed Returns

While Mckenna Grace was busy working on “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” “The Bad Seed” producer Mark Wolper mentioned that he was interested in exploring a sequel to the original film. “At that time, she was tied up, and it was like, ‘Well, there’s no script or anything like that, so we’re here, but we just don’t have time,'” writer Ross Burge (who also happens to be her father) explained.

It wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020 that he and Grace found themselves stuck at home with nothing to do. With the help of YouTube and some formatting software, the two decided to take a stab (pun intended) at writing their very first script together. “We just wrote a second ‘Bad Seed’ and only told them about it once we had finished the script and sent it to them with a full lookbook and a pitch and everything,” Grace told us — which shocked the entire development team.