Christopher Landon, director of “Happy Death Day”, opens out of “Scream 7.” The director has officially announced his departure from the completion of horror in December 2023, about a month after Melissa Barra was expelled from the movie due to the social media posts she wrote about Israel and Palestine. Gina Ortega’s exit from “Scream 7” was announced the next day to shoot Barra.
“I will find your children, and I will kill them because you support the killing of children,” Landon said in an interview with Vanity Fair. ” It was really aggressive and really frightening. ”
Landon said that he was originally blamed on the Internet for the shooting of Barra because he was the director associated with “Scream 7”, adding: “I think that in the absence of people they understand how Hollywood works and what is the hierarchical sequence, the masses were like,” this is the man. “And so they came for me, the knives.”
“She has not shot her,” the director stressed. “Many people think I had to do with him, and I had nothing. I had no control of the situation at all.”
When Landon announced his director in December 2023, he wrote on social media that obtaining “Scream 7” was “a dream job that turned into a nightmare. Vanity Fair said that the threats of death against him are the cause.
“I decided that I do not want to give any part of myself to that,” Landon said. “For me, it wasn’t worth it. I prefer to put my efforts in something else, as I felt appreciation and respect. Hate and ill -treatment spoiled this for me, and I lost my love for the idea of moving forward.” He continued, “In the midst of all chaos, I was sad for the loss of one of my dreams.”
It was the “shooting schedule” that prevented her from championship in “Scream 7”, but the actress told this month that she left the movie due to the repercussions of the Barrara launch.
“Melissa’s things were spoken, and all of this was a kind of collapse,” said Ortega. “If” Scream 7 “is not with this team of managers and those I loved, it does not seem to be the right step for me in my career at that time.”
Talk to diverse On his journalistic tour, “Drop”, Landon said: “When I fell on the project, I was told (Ortega) was outside. This was one of the things that they told me, directly when I fell on. I was like,” Ya Shit, really? “So this was a shock to me.”
“And so at that time, we were getting to know another movie without it? How do we manage it?” He continued. “So this was an old news for me from going. It was logical often what I said, because I think sometimes when you are an actor, it would be like Jessica Roth discovered that we are making a third (” Happy Death Day “), but I don’t face it. So I got it completely, 100 %.”
“Scream 7” moved with Kevin Williamson, the original screenwriter of the privilege, interfering with Direct. The film will contain the return of the franchise icon.