What do you do when your best-laid plans for a sequel go to shit? Well, if you’re Paramount Pictures, you pull the Brinks truck up to Neve Campbell’s house and beg her to come back for one more Scream movie. What else can you do after your entire production basically quit Scream 7 after you fired Melissa Barrera for speaking her mind about Palestine? That means no Jenna Ortega, no Rocket Science, no nothing — the whole original approach to the “Legacyquel” trilogy went right out the fucking window. Plus, you already killed off most of your other big names (at least in the context of the Scream movies), so no special appearance by David Arquette or whatever. It’s not like you can cancel the sequel — these movies print far too much money, even when they’re dogshit like the last two.
So, yeah, Scream 7. Sidney’s back, and so is Kevin Williamson, who wrote the first installment’s screenplay and has had a decent career as a director in the interim. Paramount dropped the first trailer for the film on Thursday, and we decided to hold it for a seasonally-appropriate day. So, watch it (we hope it doesn’t suck) and have a safe and happy Halloween, should you choose to do something other than going to a movie at IFFBoston Fall Focus.
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Here’s a synopsis for Scream 7:
“When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter (Isabel May) becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.”
Scream 7 hits theaters on February 27. Something tells us that the last line of that synopsis will never, ever, ever be true as long as someone in that universe has access to a Spirit Halloween.