When Melissa Barrera, star of the past two Scream reboot/sequels, was fired by production company Spyglass in 2023 for sharing pro-Palestinian sentiments on social media, Scream 7 should have been scrapped. When her costar and onscreen sister Jenna Ortega departed in solidarity, it should have been scrapped. When director Christopher Langdon left due to harassment and death threats over misconceptions about who fired Barrera, it should have definitely been scrapped.
However, it wasn’t, and now we’re here, in the wake of an empty, expensive ($500,000) rewrite. Kevin Williamson, who penned the first, second, and fourth installments of the original franchise, teams up with Scream V and VI co-writers James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick, and what we were ultimately presented with doesn’t tell us really anything. But it is pretty fun to see in a theater.
