Scream 6 will officially be slashing its way through theaters next year
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Paramount has announced that the sixth film in the Scream franchise will be making its way to theaters sooner than you might’ve expected: March 31, 2023.
Twenty-six years after Wes Craven revitalized the slasher sub-genre for the ‘90s with Scream, Scream (not that Scream, but a fifth Scream) scared up big money in theaters, surpassing expectations for the legacy sequel released during the doldrums of January and in the midst of COVID-19. A sequel was green-lit the weekend of the film’s release.
Earlier this week, series star Courtney Cox told the Variety podcast that she will return as reporter Gale Weathers for the sixth film in the series, and that production is slated to begin this June. Also returning are directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet as well as writers James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. Series creator Kevin Williamson executive produces.
Slasher films were was always known—for better at worse—for being cranked out at an impressive clip. Paramount was releasing a Friday The 13th film a year for a spell in the ‘80s and Scream 2 was released almost one year to the date of the original.
With a release date now locked in, one question remains: what will they title it?
Obviously, Scream 2 isn’t off-limits as the “requel”—the fourth sequel in the franchise—simply copped the name of the 1996 original. Back in 1997, the original script for the sequel was titled Scream Again before being changed to Scream: The Sequel and was finally locked in with Scream 2.
Maybe it’s finally time for the filmmakers to deliver an honest to god Stab picture, the in-universe film adaptations of events of the Scream series. The latest film was a pleasant surprise for most fans of the decades-old franchise; it paid tribute to the past, offered up that sly meta-commentary that’s been a hallmark of the series, and introduced a new cast of teenagers that audiences can’t wait to see offed in a multitude of hyper-violent ways.
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“Maybe it’s finally time for the filmmakers to deliver an honest to god Stab picture, the in-universe film adaptations of events of the Scream series.”Oh yeah, because an in-universe in-joke is TOTALLY worth losing the brand identity and marketability of the Scream series. With ideas like that, maybe there’s a reason you’re rewriting press releases instead of working on films.
Stab: A Scream FilmThere. Does that satisfy the contrarian gremlin in your throat?
I finally got a chance to watch the 5th on Paramount+.There’s a scene in the movie where Sydney and Gail are in a car and Sydney tells Gail they could just leave town or they could go to Stu’s old house and confront the killer.Sydney, without a hint of self-awarness, tells Gail “we need to finish this once and for all” (or something to that extent).I laughed.We’ve heard that line, or a version of it, in the last three movies. The 3rd was supposed to wrap up the trilogy. The 4th was supposed to kill the idea of a reboot.So with all that, even in universe how did Sydney know that stopping the killer this time would finally put an end to it? Hell, once we learn who the killers are it only muddies things further.Because the killers are literally nobody relative to the history of the franchise. Their backstories are completely separate. Which means there’s plenty of space to mine for sequels, and nothing about what Syd or Gail did actually would “end” anything.Scream has become Stab. All of the commentary is just the movie hanging a lampshade on itself to try sound like they’re above it. But they’re not. The killers plot in the fifth is literally the same as the fourth, but I’m not even sure that’s intentional because neither of them reference it during their exposition. And the only ties back to the fourth are the cop and her son.They missed their opportunity to actually be subversive in the fourth movie. Jill should have gotten away with it. The whole thing was supposed to be a “satire” of reboots, have the reboot literally kill off the original by killing Sydney.Which would have made the 5th a perfect commentary on the soft reboot by having Jill be one of the survivors alongside Dewey and Gail. She’s gotta simultaneously help survive and solve this current situation while keeping her own secret. There’s all kinds of crazy shit you could have done there.
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i like that remakes/reboots are all going down the exact same path as the originals. scream was a hit so they rushed out a sequel, so 20 years later scream is a hit so they rush out a sequel.when final fantasy 7 remake and resident evil 3 remake came out around the same time and got almost exactly the same criticisms as the originals i knew we were just gonna be stuck in a feedback loop forever.
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As if a million voices cried out in indifference, and were suddenly silenced?
“It gets better…eventually”, Sidney Prescott tells the latest final-ish girl whose entire social circle got stabbed to death with a biker knife by some asshole in a ghostface costume. What she didn’t tell her was that in fact it happens again, and again, and again, and again, and now apparently again.
What annoys me about the Scream movies is that they use self awareness as a shield against criticism. They writers think making fun of tropes gives them a free pass to follow the same formula they’re satirizing.
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Scream 6 will officially be slashing its way through theaters next year and someone will probably be in it. Unless they don’t.
Or whatever. We guess.
I’m kinda confused by this assessment of the latest movie being “a pleasant surprise”. Was it? I mean, it was well-directed, sure. But the writing really wasn’t very good at all. Uninspired dialogue and plain, uninteresting characters.The series was at its best very good at making the inherent clunkiness of the concept work in its favor, finding the humor in it. This new entry is not quite as clever and I found it painfully unfunny.