Mckenna Grace Explains How The Bad Seed Returns Was Almost A Very Different Movie

When Mckenna Grace and Ross Burge shared their final script with producers (which happened to be the first script they ever wrote together), the father-daughter duo received a surprising response. "They did have Barbara [Marshall, who wrote the first film] come on to do a bit of a rewrite, because ours was too dark and too graphic and violent," Grace told us.

As a practicing surgeon by day, Burge knew exactly what would happen in some of the darkest situations that Emma gets herself into. However, the details of what the teenage version of "The Bad Seed" was capable of were deemed much too dark for network television. "It's just really funny to think about," Grace said.

Now that their very first script has turned into a finished film, Grace is excited to be able to put together more projects with her father. "We're hoping to have more things like this and to work on more scripts and films that we've created," she said. "I think it's really cool to be able to do that together."

"The Bad Seed Returns" premieres Labor Day (Monday, September 5) at 8/7 CT on Lifetime.