While Scream 7 is currently slashing an impressive gash through the box office, the original directors, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, collectively known as Radio Silence, have been talking about what their Scream 7 would have been, following the story of Sam and Tara Carpenter (Melissa Barrara and Jenna Ortega).
Before passing through the hands of Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon and finally ending up with original Scream creator Kevin Williamson, while losing both Barrara and Ortega, it seems that the story was going to be something very different.
In a recent interview, star of the first movie and Scream (2022), Skeet Ulrich, who played original killer Billy Loomis, who also happens to be Sam Carpenter’s father (who Sam sees in her head), said there was a plan for Scream 5, 6 and 7 “for Billy Loomis to slowly turn his daughter into the killer”.
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Radio Silence, however, seems more vague on their plan for the trilogy.
“We never read a draft of any version of Scream 7 that we were going to do because we had left to do Abigail before that,” Bettinelli-Olpin says, “The thing that we had in our minds for Scream 7 was sort of like, ‘How hard can we go with this?’ It was the thing that we talked a lot about. For us, it was always this idea of, [if] Scream VI is like a secret feel-good movie, Scream 7’s going to f— you up. That was as much as we ever got to.”
Rather interestingly, it seems the duo toyed with a more claustrophobic movie after playing in New York for Scream 6: “Given that we expanded the sort of scope of the story by going to New York,” Gillet adds, “the other thing that we had talked about — just Matt and I, by the way, it wasn’t a conversation with the writers — was, ‘How do you do the opposite for 7?’ Like, shrink it down and make it this like ultra-contained, almost continuous, like minute-to-minute thing. But outside of our own stupid idea, we weren’t privy to any plan beyond just, ‘There’s gonna be another one.'”
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I think a Scream movie, which has the victims trapped in a house or small environment with Ghostface, fighting against time, would be a very cool way to shake up the formula, but to still play by the franchise rules.
Anyways, it’s not happening now, and the upside is Radio Silence’s Read or Not: Here I Come is now coming out in a few weeks, and Scream 7 is currently in cinemas, so I think that overall, the audience won in the end.
Thoughts? I know you have them and I wanna hear ’em all.
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Source: EW
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