"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. 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."
"Given that we expanded the sort of scope of the story by going to New York, the other thing that we had talked about 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.'"
Scream 7, directed by Kevin Williamson with Neve Campbell returning as Sidney Prescott, received critical backlash. Original directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett departed to work on Abigail before developing concrete plans. They envisioned a drastically different approach: while Scream VI felt like a feel-good movie, Scream 7 would be intentionally disturbing. Their concept involved making the story ultra-contained and minute-to-minute, shrinking the scope after expanding it to New York in the previous film. Christopher Landon subsequently took over directing but left following Melissa Barrera's controversial firing.
Read at The Independent
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