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[TV] “Scream” Series Script Pages Posted Online
Talk about balls. Bleeding Cool has posted actual pages from the “Scream” pilot presentation that’s being launched over ay MTV.
In an attempt to keep the script out of the hands of sites like the aforementioned, the title is “Red Roses”, penned by Jill Blotevogel.
Starring Willa Fitzgerald, Taylor-Klaus, Bobby Campo, Connor Weil and Joel Gretsch, the site says the slasher TV series is for the social media generation. And while “Scream” was about phones, this series is about smartphones.
The site also confirms that the opening scene echoes Wes Craven’s groundbreaking and original Scream – and that this television series truly is a reboot (doesn’t that sort of makes it a parody of itself?)
Just as with ‘Scream’, it begins with a murder of a young woman, as well as her boyfriend, in a game by a serial killer, playing with his victim as a cat with a mouse. Just as in ‘Scream’, these women are not defenseless, but ultimately their attempts at survival are useless.
The TV show is a reboot. There are, in the pilot, no references to Westboro, or the characters from the ‘Scream’ movie franchise that I can see. This is new blood, as it were. Even that mask that both determined the iconography of the movie, and its title, based on Munsch’s Scream painting, appears to have gone.
Sadly, they explain that it even appears that the movie’s twist is being set up here, for the new generation, and that it looks as if they’re just stretching out what worked as a movie into several hours. Yikes.
Sunrise Films has announced the official North American release of William Bagley‘s horror comedy Hold the Fort, and it’s accompanied by an energetic new trailer.
Hold the Fort debuts on digital platforms on June 23.
In the film, “Lucas and Jenny think their life is finally coming together when the couple become homeowners. Little do they know that their new house comes with a big catch. Lucas and Jenny soon find themselves in a fight for their lives when they become trapped in a battle between their Homeowners Association and an onslaught of monsters from hell. The horror-comedy takes the timely concern of home-ownership and wraps this up in an entertaining action-packed thrill ride.“
Watch the new trailer below, which introduces one wild HOA gathering during an equinox. Things get bloody fast.
Chris Mayers (Adult Swim Yule Log), Haley Leary (“The Walking Dead”), Levi Burdick, and Julian Smith star.
William Bagley writes and directs, in addition to producing with Smith, Matt Dodd, Luke Williams, and Tim Reis (Adult Swim Yule Log).
Ahead of the release, Bagley said, “My goal with this film was to make a hilarious, fast-paced thrill ride while also telling a great story with heart. Hopefully, through all the blood, laughs, fights, and gags, you leave the film feeling inspired to tackle whatever life throws at you.“
Hold the Fort premiered at Fantasia last summer before going on to play FrightFest London, Toronto After Dark, and Beyond Fest.
I wrote in my review, “It’s an infectiously charming assemblage of jokes and monster vignettes bound together by a barebones plot with not much on its mind beyond delivering an entertaining time.”
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