There was a time when horror
movies, particularly “slasher” films, followed a rote storytelling convention.
Take a group of people, usually reckless air-headed teenagers, then set a
killer loose at them and watch as their numbers get whittled down with death
after death until a final survivor (likely a girl) either escapes or puts the
murderous force down. The year 1996 saw Dimension Films release “Scream”
directed by Wes Craven, which revisits spree killer films while featuring
characters that are aware of the genre’s various conventions. “Scream” would
receive three sequels and a TV spinoff. Meanwhile plans for a remake of the
original have finally come to the development table.
The Hollywood Reporter tells us that a “Scream” reboot is soon to
be at the horizon after Spyglass Media has found, not just one, but two
directors for the project. They would be Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin,
who last year came onto the spotlight for their comparably successful comedy horror
movie “Ready or Not” for Fox Searchlight Pictures (now just Searchlight Pictures).
They will be joined in the “Scream” production by producer Chad Villela, with
the three of them together forming the horror filmmaking posse known as Radio
Silence.
“Scream,” or at least its
original first movie, tells the story of a small-town girl who finds herself
the target of GhostFace, a sadistic serial killer who wears a now-iconic
costume of a black robe and a white mask modeled after the central character of
“The Scream,” a painting by Edvard Munch. She and her circle of friends are rather
savvy about horror movie clichés (with one mentioning how characters who say “I’ll
be right back” tend not to), but that does not quite save them from getting
mutilated. The movie starred Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courtney Cox and
Matthew Lillard, the first time a horror film featured already-established
actors.
The original 1996 production was under
Dimension Films when it was a label of Miramax when Bob and Harvey Weinstein
were still around. After the Weinsteins formed their own company, they took
Dimension with them, until the Weinstein Company went bankrupt in 2018 and certain
media assets, including “Scream,” were snapped up by Lantern Entertainment,
which then co-founded Spyglass Media only in 2019. No further details about the
in-development movie were made known, particularly on whether it will be a
straight reboot or a spinoff/sequel.
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