Christopher Landon Left ‘Shout 7’ Following Death Risks Over Melissa Barrera Shooting: “I Did Not Fire Her”

Christopher Landon, who was initially set to direct Scream 7, is exposing what decreased in the middle of Melissa Barrera being fired from the movie.

In a current interview with Vanity Fair, Landon discussed what a “dark and troubled experience” Scream 7 was. Barrera who led Scream and Shout VI, was dropped in November 2023 from the seventh movie since of her Israel-Hamas war social networks posts.

Landon remembers getting a call from Spyglass Media Group, the production business behind the film, informing him the news that she was release. He keeps in mind whatever “came toppling down in an immediate.”.

And when Barrera’s co-star Jenna Ortega, willingly left the movie following her being fired, things began to get “extremely aggressive and actually frightening” since individuals blamed Landon for the circumstance.

” Individuals were threatening to eliminate me and my household, to the point where the FBI was getting included. I got messages stating, ‘I’m going to discover your kids, and I’m going to eliminate them since you support kid murder,'” the Pleased Death Day director continued. “The head of security at numerous studios and the FBI needed to take a look at the hazards.”

Nevertheless, Landon validated he didn’t, informing Vanity Fair: “I did not fire her. A great deal of individuals believe I had something to do with it, and it was not my doing. I had no control of the circumstance at all.”

Ortega likewise just recently exposed why she chose to leave. “It had absolutely nothing to do with pay or scheduling,” she stated. “The Melissa things was occurring, and it was all type of breaking down.”

Since of the hate the Freaky director got, he chose to leave the film himself, stating the “abuse actually ruined it for me, and I lost my love for the concept of moving forward.”

Landon’s now carried on as the experience led him to be readily available to direct his most current thriller, Drop, which currently got rave evaluations and formally strikes theaters on Friday. Scream 7 which will premiere in February next year, is being directed by Kevin Williamson. It will likewise star its tradition castmembers Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette.