Christopher Landon reveals where he landed in the middle of the controversies “Scream VII” in 2023. The director of the new thriller “Drop” told Vanity That he and his family endured death threats and “abuse” after “screams” franchisee actors Melissa Barrera Where Fired of the production company Spyglass for her pro-Palestine comments. According to Landon, the fans conflicted Spyglass’s decision with their own personal policy; At that time, Landon wrote on Twitter in a Then exhausted statement About barraved shooting, “Everything sucks. Stop screaming. This was not my decision to make.”
After Barra was released, her “Scream” co -star Jenna Ortega decided to leave the franchise as well. It was Originally reported It “Scream VII” in conflict with Ortega’s “Wednesday” season 2 shooting after the Sag-Aftra strikes; Ortega recently Clarified to The cut That her output had “nothing to do with salary or scheduling” and it was barking shooting that was the cause of her decision to leave. “The Melissa things happened, and it was all kinds of falling apart,” Ortega said. “If ‘Scream VII’ would not be with that team of directors and the people I fell in love with, it didn’t seem like the right move for me in my career at that time.”
If only Landon could just say the same: “Happy Death Day” and “Paranormal Activity” film creator united with Ortega to without barrack, “Scream VII” “tumbled down in an instant.” He added that it was “devastating to suddenly interrupt everything” during the preparation for the project. However, it was not only creative frustrations that Landon had to endure: the director said that “screams” fans attacked digitally his family (Landon and his husband Cody Morris have two sons, ages five and eight) the reason? Barra is fired.
“I did not fire her,” reworked Landon. “Many people think I had something to do with it, and it wasn’t mine. I had no control over the situation at all. I think in the absence of people understand how Hollywood works and what the hierarchy is, the fans were like,” that’s the guy. “And then they came to me, knives out.”
Landon continued to bare’s shooting became a core of how Hollywood reacted to the Israel-Palestine conflict at that time in November 2023.
“People threatened to kill me and my family, to the point where the FBI got involved,” Landon said. “I have messages saying:“ I will find your children and I will kill them because you support child murder. “The security manager in various studios and the FBI had to investigate the threats.
On December 23, 2023, Landon announced that he also shared roads with “Scream VII.”
“They wanted me to continue,” Landon said about spit ice cream. “They basically said:“ You can restart it. You can figure it out. “But the amount of abuse that I had to deal with – I decided that I did not want to give any part of myself to me, it wasn’t worth it to me.
Landon added, “In the midst of all the chaos, I mourned the loss of one of my dream jobs. I went through all the scenes – I was shocked, I was sorry, and then I got angry. Being part of this legacy, it was really hard to talk about it was a very dark and tumultuous experience. The unpleasant experience and turns it into something positive.
Original “Scream” screenwriter Kevin Williamson will now write and direct “Scream VII.” Landon supports film And the franchise as a whole, even after his experience of it.
“I want” screams “to succeed. Kevin probably made a banger of a movie, because he knows it better than anyone else. It will be fantastic,” he said. “There is no Harsel at all. What will you do more? Swallow? Then they win. My best revenge was to do something cool, and I feel I did with” drop “. My revenge was not anchored in pain or anger;
