You need to build on it and you need to introduce new characters that fans of the franchise are going to love and hopefully respond to in a personal way, that is of the time now that they’re watching this. Like you were saying, you don’t want to just pay homages and do Easter eggs and things. We dove into the history of all four films and plucked the things that we thought would be great to include in this movie.Īnd then also challenged ourselves to build on that. It is fans making another “Scream” movie. There were four movies before this and we are the biggest fans, not only us, but both the producers and the writers and everybody are huge “Scream” fans. And throughout the entire process, I think relying on the history of everything that is “Scream” was so vital to us. And I think that’s something that we definitely wanted to approach ours with. He quickly established that fear that any character could go at any time. And obviously with that opening, which is like one of the best movie openings of all time with Drew Barrymore. And then when we come on board, we did reach out to Patrick Lussier who was Wes’ editor on the original “Scream” just to try to get into their mindset a little bit for what they did with the first movie.Īnd one of the things that Patrick told us that Wes always said is I want them to feel like they’re in the hands of a madman. And what Guy and Jamie brought to the script. And so to not have him around, I think also just gave everyone a moment of hesitation about, what could it be without his fingerprint? And so, I think for us it was really our job to let them all know that what we were setting out to make was something that was in every way influenced by Wes and Kevin and our love of their work and our love of the legacy cast and we have a real desire to carry the torch in a humble, generous way and not just pull the rug out from under what this franchise was, but to really do it justice and to really approach the whole process with a lot of love and a lot of fandom at the end of the day.Ībout that mixture of reverence and reinvention, did you reach out to any other key collaborators from those initial movies? And how did you achieve the alchemy of respecting what came before but not coming across like a bad imitation?Ĭhad Villella: That’s a fantastic question and I think it all starts with the script. They came up as part of a family that Wes and Kevin built. And then also just the reality to the emotional weight of what these movies are for the legacy cast. We knew that it had to be and would ultimately, I think, resonate with anybody who read it that understood the “Scream” movies, but there’s also just a reality to schedules and all of that. And what the blueprint was and how much it was resonating with us. I think we simultaneously had all the confidence in the world in this script. ![]() I think we felt confident ultimately that they were going to sign on because what was on the page to us was just such a tribute to those characters while also being like the kind of perfect way to drop us back in the story of their lives 10 years later. Tyler Gillett: It was pretty touch and go. ![]() How touch-and-go was it, in terms of securing the returning cast members? There was an interview with Neve from 2020 where she talks about you guys writing her a letter. ![]() It was like, holy shit another “Scream” movie is coming out. And honestly, it started with hearing that that Jamie and Guy, who are two close friends, were writing it. I think, it’s been an out body experience since we read the script for the first time in the top of 2020, it was just. Tyler Gillett: Yes, it was equal parts, terrifying and exciting. What was it like embarking on this journey? We’ll have more from our chat with the Radio Silence team, including digging into all those juicy spoiler details, very soon! Oh, and we get their thoughts on “The Last Jedi” too! The team, who last worked on the wonderful locked-door horror thriller “Ready or Not,” talked with TheWrap about what it was like working on their dream project, attempting to sway the legacy cast members to come on board the new film, and reproducing the special formula that made the initial films so special, only without director Wes Craven (who passed away in 2015) and screenwriter Kevin Williamson (who was an executive producer the new script was handled by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick). Talking to them, even for a few moments, it is very clear that there simply isn’t anyone else who could have brought this new “Scream” to life. When it comes to “Scream” fandom, it doesn’t get much bigger than directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and producer Chad Villella, who are collectively known as Radio Silence.
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