‘Scream’ TV Show Cast: Where Are They Now? Willa Fitzgerald, Bex Taylor-Klaus and More

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A killer concept. Following the success of the Scream franchise, MTV introduced a more long-term slasher concept in the form of a TV series.In 2015, Scream premiered as a separate entity based on murders that take place in the fictional town of Lakewood.

Emma Duval (Willa Fitzgerald) finds herself taunted by the killer due to her connection to the town’s dark history.Ahead of the horror show’s debut, season 1 showrunner Jill Blotevogel explained how the writers room approached creating a slasher for the small screen.“It really came down, to make it feel like Scream, that Scream is about a real physical killer and the mask that he wears,” she told Collider in 2015. “It was about getting that meta tone down, the humor and really tapping into the idea of technology and how kids today make themselves incredibly vulnerable with what they expose about themselves on the internet. … And how we all wear masks by what we put out on social media, with the photos we put out there and the information that we release.”The producer noted that the TV series was focused on getting the audience invested in the core story. “With this show, we really wanted to start with the characters and this amazing cast and get you to care for them and fall in love with them, so you’re rooting for them to survive,” Blotevogel continued. “A lot of times, in a horror movie, you don’t have enough time to get to know them well enough to care that much.

We want to keep that uncertainty. We want to keep people off-balance, so that they don’t know necessarily when, if or how someone might die.”For the Harper’s Island alum, the “trickiest aspects” of Scream came with the murders. “As soon as you create characters and you start working with them, you fall in