Scream lead Melissa Barrera was fired from the hit slasher franchise final yr after she shared her help for Palestine within the ongoing Israel-Hamas warfare on social media.
That continues to be a divisive subject, however followers had been fast to precise their unhappiness with the choice and the challenge quickly fell aside. Wednesday star Jenna Ortega later selected to stroll away from the upcoming seventh instalment, and whereas it is been broadly reported {that a} pay dispute was the principle problem for her, hearsay has it Ortega could have additionally been displaying solidarity with Barrera.
Both approach, with out its two leads, it was clear Scream 7 could not be made as initially deliberate. Finally, even director Christopher Landon selected to exit the challenge, saying his resolution got here all the way down to the truth that “it was a dream job that became a nightmare.”
Spyglass is now thought to be courting unique star Neve Campbell after beforehand refusing to pay her what she needed for Scream VI. Speaking to Screen Rant (through FearHQ.com), Skeet Ulrich – who performed Billy Loomis, the daddy of Barrera’s Sam and Ortega’s Tara – shared contemporary insights into what he’d heard about the place the story was purported to go
Whereas his character, who additionally donned the enduring Ghostface masks, is lengthy lifeless, he is had a recurring presence in Sam’s life as she’s seemingly descended into insanity. Based on Ulrich, the thought was for Billy’s daughter to lastly embrace her interior darkness within the finale of this trilogy.
“Precisely that. I hoped for precisely that, and that is kind of the concept that was pitched to me a pair years in the past,” the actor says. “That it was a three-movie arc, with that in thoughts. Now, I by no means noticed any of the drafts of seven or something that.’
“And I do not know, I imply, it is potential that it did not embody any of that as effectively. However yeah, that was my hope is that if it was going to imply something, that it straight impacted the plot.”
We’re unsure how Sam and Tara shall be written out of Scream however primarily based on how issues ended within the final film, it is clear the previous was going to comply with in her father’s footsteps (and, whereas Ulrich chooses his phrases rigorously, plainly story arc was pitched to him earlier than he agreed to these cameos).
“I really feel like there’s a lot that would occur with Sam,” Barrera informed us in a 2022 interview (you possibly can watch that beneath). “With out giving any spoilers, however with how the film ends and this facet of her that she embraces on the finish of this film…I really feel like there’s a lot to discover along with her.”
“It might be a really fascinating journey as an actor to discover that duality of the character and her embracing a bit of little bit of the darkish facet. I don’t know. It’s thrilling!”
Scream 7 doesn’t have a confirmed launch date.
