Scream (2022) and Scream VI directing directing duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett of Radio Silence have shared new details about their initial vision for Scream 7.
“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 explains to EW.
He continues, “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, Scream VI is like a secret feel-good movie, Scream 7‘s going to fuck you up. That was as much as we ever got to.”
Gillet comments, “Given that we expanded the sort of scope of the story by going to New York, 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 ultra-contained, almost continuous, minute-to-minute thing.”
He adds, “But outside of our own stupid idea, we weren’t privy to any plan beyond just, ‘There’s gonna be another one.'”
Radio Silence went on to helm Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, while Scream 7 was directed by Kevin Williamson (writer of Scream, Scream 2, and Scream 4). Incidentally, Guy Busick co-wrote both projects.
In the film, when a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “There are enough thrills and chills injected, at least until its abysmal finale, to signal that there’s a faintly beating pulse buried somewhere under the mess.”
The #1 movie in the country, Scream 7 had the highest grossing opening weekend in the franchise’s 30-year history with $64.1 million at the domestic box office.
