It was back in February (which feels like forever ago!) that we first heard that Grave Encounters’ Colin Minhan will be helming a new Urban Legend for Screen Gems, and now the film is close to landing its first cast members.

Via Collider, Katherine McNamara and Sydney Chandler are both in talks for this fourth Urban Legends outing. McNamara is best known to genre fans for playing Mia Smoak, aka the future Green Arrow, in The CW’s Arrow, while Chandler has appeared in SKAM Austin and the Jellyfish and The Golden Rut shorts.

Using social media as its driving force, the early word on this new Urban Legend reads:

Urban Legend will introduce an iconic new slasher for the digital age in a world where internet urban legends are born and move at a terrifying pace. The movie will centre on a diverse cast of college students as they navigate a series of bizarre deaths that resemble urban legends linked to the darkest corners of social media.

At this stage, it’s not yet known whether the movie – which is seemingly just titled Urban Legend – will be a reboot, remake, or even some sort of sequel which exists within the same world as the three Urban Legend films that already exist.

For those not familiar with this franchise, the first Urban Legend was released by Sony TriStar back in 1998. Starring a who’s who of hot young things of the time, the movie featured the likes of Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Michael Rosenbaum, Tara Reid, Joshua Jackson, Danielle Harris, and Jared Leto as a group of college students who find themselves in the crosshairs of a parka-adorned killer who is offing people in a way akin to certain familiar urban legends – complete with supporting turns from genre faves Robert Englund and Brad Dourif.

That original film came at a time when the world of horror had been given a shot in the arm thanks largely to Wes Craven’s Scream. After a strange few years for the genre, Craven’s 1996 film made horror cool again – and that film, its approach, its cast, and its new spin on the slasher movie saw a slew of similar pictures follow over the next few years. And one such picture was indeed Urban Legend.

It wasn’t just one-and-done for Urban Legend, of course, and the so-so Urban Legends: Final Cut arrived in 2000, before the utterly awful Urban Legends: Bloody Mary went straight-to-video in 2005.

As ever, expect more on Urban Legend as we get it.