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‘Scream 7’ Original Directors Say Their Version Was Intended To “F*ck You Up”

Ghostface 'Scream 7' (2026) Paramount Pictures Following Scream 7‘s long and bumpy road to the screen, Radio Silence is reflecting on their original vision for the slasher installment. The directing duo, consisting of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, recently described “how hard” they wanted to go with their version of the film, before ultimately departing the project to direct their vampire ballerina flick, Abigail (2024), with Christopher Landon temporarily stepping in for the pair. “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,” noted Bettinelli-Olpin to Entertainment Weekly.

Ghostface 'Scream 7' (2026)

Ghostface 'Scream 7' (2026)

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Key Highlights

  • “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, [if] Scream VI is like a secret feel-good movie, Scream 7‘s going to f*ck you up.
  • That was as much as we ever got to.” Related Stories News Skeet Ulrich Says He Was Supposed To Return For ‘Scream 7’ Before Melissa Barrera’s Firing News Melissa Barrera Appears To React To ‘Scream 7’ Premiere Protest: “I See You” Gillett added, “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 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.'” Watch on Deadline Although they didn’t have specifics to share, Skeet Ulrich recently teased what was supposed to happen in Scream 7 with his murderous character Billy Loomis’ daughter Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera) and her sister Tara (Jenna Ortega) in the “really, really interesting” sequel, before Barrera was fired from the franchise.
  • Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett attend the premiere of ‘Abigail’ on April 17, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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