Mason Gooding Spills on Scream 7: Why This “Homely” Sequel Will Break Every Horror Rule You Know—And It’s Totally Unconventional!
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Oh darling, buckle up because the saga of Scream 7 just took a twist messier than Mercury retrograde on a dark and stormy night! Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures initially had a sleek plan starring the fresh faces Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, guided by Christopher Landon – but then diva demands and political hot potatoes threw a wrench bigger than a Saturn opposition into the works. Now, the ever-iconic Neve Campbell is sashaying back as Sidney Prescott, with original Scream scribe Kevin Williamson calling the shots, promising a “domestic,” “homely,” and wildly unconventional chapter that Mason Gooding hints will be as brutal and gory as your ex’s texts after he’s had one too many. Astrology fans, isn’t it just perfect that during this unpredictable lunation, the Scream universe itself is undergoing such a transformative rebirth? Ghostface might just be stalking the stars themselves! Curious to see how this all-encompassing sequel meshes franchise lore with fresh vibes? Well, darling, so am I. LEARN MORE
Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures once intended to make a Scream 7 that would have starred Scream (2022) and Scream VI leads Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, with Freaky and Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon at the helm. But then Ortega allegedly asked for a substantial pay raise – and as we saw when Neve Campbell dropped out of Scream VI due to a pay dispute, these pay issues don’t tend to work out. Then Barrera was fired from the project after comments she made about the Israel-Hamas war didn’t go over well with executives at Spyglass. Landon dropped out the of the project soon after. So Scream 7 has been re-developed, Campbell has signed on to return as franchise heroine Sidney Prescott, back in the lead role, while Kevin Williamson, who wrote the screenplay for the original Scream, directs the film from a screenplay by 2022’s Scream and Scream VI writer Guy Busick, who crafted the story with his co-writer on the fifth and sixth films, James Vanderbilt. (Vanderbilt is also a producer on the most recent sequels.) Although two of the “core four” characters established in the previous two movies are no longer around, Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown are back as Chad Meeks-Martin and Mindy Meeks-Martin – and while speaking with Us Weekly, Gooding described the new sequel as “domestic,” as well as “homely and unconventional.”
Gooding has previously promised that Scream 7 will deliver a brutal Ghostface and some gross, gory special effects. He also told Us Weekly what it was like to have Williamson at the helm of the film: “From a creative standpoint, [he] is the dream, because he created that world. So having a level of understanding and world building and in background and ethos of just the concept in general of Scream, was incredibly gratifying and also led to a greater understanding of the lifeblood of the series as a whole.” So this is an “all encompassing addition to the movies that can hit on all those tone and world building elements that you maybe hope for in a sequel, or just in a franchise in general.“
Neve Campbell, Gooding, and Savoy Brown are joined in the cast by Isabel May of the Yellowstone prequel 1883, who has signed on to play Sidney’s daughter; Mckenna Grace of the Ghostbusters franchise, Grace’s Ghostbusters co-star Celeste O’Connor, Gen V‘s Asa Germann, The Fabelmans‘ Sam Rechner, Pitch Perfect‘s Anna Camp, Riverdale‘s Mark Consuelos, fellow franchise star Courteney Cox, who reprises the role of reporter / author Gale Weathers, Joel McHale (Community) as Sidney’s husband Mark Evans, and Ethan Embray (The Devil’s Candy). Oddly, Matthew Lillard and Scott Foley, who played Ghostface killers in the original Scream and Scream 3, respectively, and did not appear to make it out of those movies alive, are also in the cast.
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