“Community” and “Mad Men” star Alison Brie has signed on to star in Wes Craven’s meta-slasher Scream 4, currently filming in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The 26-year-old actress will play Sidney Prescott’s (Neve Campbell) “ambitious” new assistant.

Brie joins a cast that includes Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, Marley Shelton, Adam Brody, Mary McDonnell, Erik Knudsen, Nico Tortorella, and old-schoolers Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Araquette.

Scream 4 marks the start of a new trilogy and is the first entry in the series since 2000. The franchise has earned over $500 million in worldwide coin.

Scream 4 arrives in theaters on April 15, 2011.