Don’t reboot the ‘Scream’ franchise again — end it for good
nypost.comand frightening send-up of the horror genre with appealing young stars has stumbled klutz-like into mediocrity, cuteness and groan-worthy predictability.
Some say campy. I say snooze-o-rama.Well, lucky us, a perfect storm of events went down this week that made me scream with joy.
Actress Melissa Barrera, who’s appeared in the previous two movies as Sam — pretty much Sidney Prescott 2.0 — was fired from “Scream 7” for pro-Palestine social media posting that the film’s studio, Spyglass Media, said “flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech.” And her co-star Jenna Ortega, who played Sam’s little sister Tara, was revealed not to be returning for “7” reportedly due to her demanding shooting schedule for the Netflix series “Wednesday.”Your popular, young leads are out the door, so it’s time to call it quits and spare us another one of these duds, right?Wrong.
According to Deadline, writers James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick are headed back to the drawing board to create an entirely new story (insofar as one can) that could incorporate past stars who’ve already popped into the reboot movies with all the energy of Madame Tussauds wax figures, including Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox.Getting Campbell onboard again would be a tall order.
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