SCREAM VII Director Christopher Landon Explains How He Landed the Film and Says It "Was Always Meant to Be"

With the Radio Silence directing group placing their give attention to making a monster film for Universal Pictures and a remake of Escape From New York, that they had to cross off Scream VII to one other filmmaker to take over the horror franchise. That director ended up being Christopher Landon, who helmed movies akin to Happy Death Day and Freaky. He’s made some nice horror motion pictures and it looks like the Scream franchise could be a terrific match for his filmmaking and storytelling model.

During a latest interview on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, Landon was requested about Scream VII and how that ended up touchdown in his lap, and he defined that it was at all times meant to be. He mentioned:

“It came out of the blue for me. My understanding is that there were conversations happening for some time. But I think it was just an opportunity that really arose because the other directors who did the last two films, Tyler and Matt, they wanted to do something else. They were ready to kind of do something different. That’s when they obviously had to find someone new, and I’ve known Kevin Williamson, who wrote the original film, for a long, long time and he’s a friend. I think he threw my name into the hat and everybody kind of said, ‘Yeah, that makes sense. That seems to make sense.’ And I was just thrilled that I got that call because it felt very, it felt like kismet, it felt like a thing that like was always meant to be.”

There’s no info on who shall be writing Scream VII, however the final two movies have been written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. Landon can be a screenwriter, so I think about that he’ll at the least be a co-writer on the script.

As for the forged, I think about most, if not all, of the surviving most important characters will return, so that features Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Mason Gooding, and Jasmin Savoy Brown. It would even be good to see Hayden Panettiere.