Christopher Landon, the director originally attached to helm Scream 7, has opened up about his decision to exit the franchise ‘about a week’ after Melissa Barrera was fired. Though the iconic slasher franchise Scream welcomed new blood in the form of Melissa Barrera and Wednesday‘s Jenna Ortega to 2022’s soft reboot and its sequel Scream VI,

When writer-director Christopher Landon departed “Scream VII” in 2023, there was what he says really happened and then there was a perceived story of what went down.

"They were all screaming at someone who wasn’t even on the movie anymore," Christopher Landon said in a new book about the franchise.