The original Scream 7 director left a few days after Melissa Barrera was fired: “The entire script concerned her”

When Christopher Landon signed to direct Scream 7He wasn’t just trying to drive another Slasher movie. He was trying to direct a film built around Melissa BarraraThe character, Sam Carpenter, and when he was suddenly fired, Landon says that the film he signed has disappeared with her.

In the new book Your Favorite Film Film: How The Scream Films Riswork the horror rules (Via Entertainment Weekly), Landon revealed that he moved away from the project “About a week later” Spyglass Entertainment has dropped Barrera on his social media posts on Israel and Palestine.

“There was no longer any film. The entire script concerned her,” Landon said. Sam Carpenter, daughter of the notorious assassin of Ghostface Billy Loomis (Skeet ulrich), had become the emotional and narrative nucleus of Cry (2022) e Scream VI (2024). When it was cut, the entire basis of Scream 7 crumbled.

“I have not signed to make” a scream movie. “I signed to make that movie.

While Barrera’s fire became public in November 2023, Landon’s release did not come to light until a month later. He had hoped to silently face the repercussions behind the scenes, but when the online backlash started boiling, including threats to his life, remaining silent was no longer an option.

“I was still fixing my feelings for everything that had happened,” Landon explained. “When everything went down, it was something I was trying to elaborate in a private and balanced way. When you are a person addressed to the public, often people don’t like people. People want an immediate reaction and want you to agree with them.”

He officially announced his departure once the death threats have become overwhelming.

“They were all screaming someone who was no longer even in the film,” he said. “There were many people who thought I was a kind of villain. This really was in my head. It was painful and it was painful to lose a dream job in such a sudden and bizarre way.”

Previously Landon went in more detail, sharing that he received terrifying messages such as “I intend to find your children and I will kill them because you support the murder for children”. The threats were serious enough to involve the safety of the study and the FBI.

“I didn’t shoot [Melissa]”, I called Landon.” Many people think I had something to do with it, and it wasn’t my doing. I had no control of the situation. “

When in the end he turned to his release in December, he called Scream 7 “a dream job that turned into a nightmare”. The severity of the threats made it impossible to continue.

“I decided that I didn’t want to give me myself,” Landon said. “For me, it was not worth it. I would prefer to make my efforts in something else, where I could feel appreciated and respected. The hatred and abuse really spoiled him for me and I lost my love for the idea of ​​going on.”

With Landon outside and the original demolished script, Kevin Williamsonthe original Cry Writer who wrote Cry, Scream 2AND Scream 4 He entered to direct a completely new version of Scream 7. This fresh interpretation reports franchise icon Snow campbell Like Sidney Prescott, who will be at the center of the scene again when the new film makes its way into the cinemas on February 27th.