Jenna Ortega (Jane the Virgin) has joined the cast for the upcoming fifth entry in the Scream horror franchise, alongside Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Melissa Barrera. The new Scream has Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the team behind Ready or Not, attached to direct, with a screenplay by James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) and Guy Busick (Ready or Not).
Sources vary at the moment on whether the new Scream is a full series reboot or a sequel, although more places seem to be saying “reboot” than not. A new Scream, assuming it makes its planned 2021 release date, would be the first film in the larger series for 10 years, following 2011’s Scream 4.
Neve Campbell, star of the first four Scream movies, said during an interview in May that she was talking with the Scream 5 team about rejoining the cast, but there’s been no word since. Kevin Williamson, the writer of the first, second, and fourth Scream movies, is attached to Scream 5 as an executive producer.
The original Scream, back in 1996, arguably revitalized the slasher-movie subgenre, introduced the now-weirdly-iconic killer Ghostface, and led to a trend of self-aware characters in horror. With studios like Blumhouse leading a revitalization of horror as a mainstream film genre, and other long-running franchises like Halloween making a comeback, it was probably only a matter of time before someone tried to make a new Scream.
It had a long road to get here, however. All four films in the Scream series to date were directed by Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street), who passed away in 2015, and 2011’s Scream 4 underperformed at the box office. While both Craven and Williamson were under contract to make a Scream 5, creative differences between them and the film studio, the Weinstein Company, kept the project in limbo. The Weinsteins eventually went on to create the 2015 TV show Scream for MTV instead, leaving the film franchise dead on the vine.
The Weinstein Company was subsequently forced into bankruptcy in 2018, following a collapsed buyout and the revelation that its co-founder Harvey Weinstein had been committing hundreds of crimes. The Weinstein assets were purchased by Lantern Capital Partners later that year, which formed a new company, Spyglass Media, to make new film and TV projects with the Weinstein Company’s IPs. (This also includes a planned revival of the Hellraiser franchise by David Goyer, because nothing lives up to that series’s themes more than not leaving it alone.) Spyglass successfully won the full rights to Scream in July of 2019, following a claim by Viacom, and subsequently announced plans for a new Scream back in March.
While no production schedule has been established yet, the new Scream will be shot in Wilmington, North Carolina, aiming for a full theatrical release in 2021. Ortega can next be seen in the upcoming Netflix original movie Yes Day, alongside Jennifer Garner.
Source: Deadline
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