 What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here So we'll be talking about scream seven in this video here again today We'll be going over the Melissa Barrera situation a little bit more context on this Supposedly occurring a month in advance which lines up with what many of us already know or anticipate or Speculate on when we get news breaking that this already happened a while ago And we're just now being told us being the public and this happened a while ago because notice how Melissa Barrera She didn't even really make a big deal about it online. She kept doing her thing She already knew it was up because it happened a while ago That's what it came off like from her energy And it's just usually the case when those type of things break in the news this stuff was already in the works It already happened, but it's now being made known to the public. We're gonna talk about that a little more We're gonna talk about Neve Campbell We're gonna talk about the head of spyglass and their stance on Neve Campbell and the exit of Jenna Ortega And I guess who might have also exited the Project and just the project apparently being in shambles or just being very raw according to this report again from the Hollywood reporter So on November 21st, I'll just read the article On November 21st it broke that spyglass had fired Melissa Barrera from the upcoming seventh screen movie over social media posts that Company decision-makers characterized as anti-Semitic sources note the firing actually came a month earlier in the weeks of The Israel Hamas war when Barrera had become increasingly vocal Before her firing sources say her deal to return as Sam Carpenter had been finalized On November 22nd came the news that Barrera's on-screen sister Jenna Ortega had quietly exited the franchise months earlier Scheduling issues were cited But sources say Ortega who has skyrocketed from child star to supporting player in last year's scream to the a-list Thanks to her turn in the Netflix series Wednesday asked for a bigger payday for the seventh installment Commensurate with her status Unlike Barrera sources say Ortega had no deal in place Ortega had previously been paid in the six figures for her previous installments But her team now wants Projects with significant payday something that the screen franchise is not known for sources say she was seeking high seven figures And anticipated a spyglass would bulk spyglass head Gary Barber is known for his shrewd business sense or for being cheap Depending on what side of the table you are on multiple sources say the studio had already lost steward Or had already lost Nef Campbell over a salary dispute for this year's screen six With the actress saying at the time that she couldn't walk on set feeling undervalued and many predicted that this would be a disaster financially It goes on to say Barber's apparent takeaway is that neither stars nor large salaries are essential He didn't need Nef so he doesn't need Jenna says one insider Scream seven was to have been the end of a rumor trilogy focused on the two Carpenter sisters even after Ortega departed It wasn't much of a pivot to refocus on Barera's more prominent character But with both actors gone Restitching from from whole cloth seems necessary. We already know that's what they're doing. They're reworking the whole story Then this insane while some insiders say the situation is in shambles and very raw It may not be as dire as it might seem a scream has always had Interchangeable villains behind the mask ensemble cast and certain legacy characters another reboot will not fatally stab the franchise Now here's the interesting part It says Christopher Landon remains on board as director as does James Vanderbilt who co-wrote the two previous installments now notice It says as does James Vanderbilt It does not say and Guy Busek so is Guy Busek now gone as well Is he not writing the screenplay is it solely going to be James Vanderbilt? Or are they gonna bring in a new writer to co-write the screenplay with James? You know all interesting things that I take away from this report from the Hollywood reporter Granted, I will say that until I hear otherwise For me and everyone else because of what variety confirmed that I had been saying for months James and guy would be back variety based to confirm that they will be actually working on the new draft But now this Hollywood reporter news Only has James Vanderbilt cited so I'm curious did guy also leave the project We'll just have to wait and see but this type of mentality from the spyglass head It's why I think the right should be sold He's entitled to his own opinion, but It seems like we just we just have the IP in the hands of people who really do not care And what I mean is it's not shocking that they look at it as business That's that's what these people are going to do when they attain rights to movie franchises to the creators is art But to them it's business business and ways to make money. That's all it comes down to and that's Understandable because they're not the ones really creating the art However, when you seem to like have no respect for the art creating process I think you need to go and that's what it comes off like when Apparently according to the insiders. He thinks he doesn't need nav. He doesn't think he needs jenna and I will say this Okay, you let's say you don't need them. That's fair But the energy that it gives off is very hostile. That's just me. I think it seems very hostile from this man And I think that his company spyglass needs to no longer have the rights to screen And I'm not saying the screen seven will be bad but I just don't think we should really get any more screen movies after seven from spyglass chances are they're not going to give up The rights though because look at the state of the economy They're probably going to milk this franchise for everything they can as often or as long as audiences show up to keep enriching themselves Regardless of the quality quality be damned Their mindset going forward. I very much so will be confident in thinking it'll be Quantity over quality I think we will start to get a lot of crappy screen movies if this keeps up after seven seven might be the starting point And then you'll just get a crappy scream eight a scrappy a crappy scream nine ten whoever Whatever else comes because of the fact that people keep showing up to see these movies me personally I've already made my case my case clear with scream seven. I intend to see my freebie And then that's it. I don't intend to see screen seven multiple times in theaters because of how I have to actually focus on this stuff for the sake of stuff to talk about on this channel It just leaves a bad taste of my mouth to go out of my way to see screen seven in theaters multiple times outside of the One freebie. I won't be doing it. I don't plan on doing it with any other Any other future films as long as it's in spyglass's hands I will just go and see it the once and I will treat this ip sadly like how I treat another tainted ip Because that's just how that's how the cookie crumbles when you have people at the top Who leave a bad taste in the mouth of the consumer? Now obviously, of course, I will still recognize that most people do not care about this dude He could drop dead tomorrow and nobody will bad in eyes. So similar how they don't care about that They don't care about his stances on never general or takeover people like us diehards who study this stuff in and out This gets on our nerves and we don't want you to have the rights to our precious ip And I hope that's not the case for many years to come And that they sell the rights But again, I have to be realistic and consider the state of the economy They're probably going to just milk this for everything they can and the reason they're being cheap is again a reflection Of what's happening in the economy granted. They were already being cheap with nev But now they're just going to be even more cheap in response to the strikes In response to all the other things that recently happened that stalled hollywood for months And in my opinion a lot of the studio is going to be doing this It's like backlash or payback for the strikes to the crew that wanted to be fairly compensated While we're on the topic of nev Notice how the insider to the hollywood reporter is claiming that Barber I guess doesn't think he needs nev Is this like a recent comment because if so Is this a telltale sign of the fact that nev Campbell herself won't even be back for scream seven anyway Just a lot to consider here. Do we not have guy back? Do we not have nev Campbell back? We already know jenna and melissa won't be back It's already highly anticipated that jasmine and mason won't be back So you have to just consider those things with a comment like that I don't need nev and I don't need jenna. Okay guy. Well You definitely need ghost face. So if roger doesn't come back, then I would say you're screwed not to say that That's really the biggest issue here, but you get my point. I didn't want to also point this out If they go ahead and just do a full fledged reboot. What do you guys see them doing? What do you guys see them doing for a story? I don't see hating panty air signing on I mean she very well could and again I'm not going to really throw any shade towards anyone who signs on because I get The current state of hollywood might make things very scarce and make you kind of Idiotic to reject certain roles and opportunities when you don't have a lot coming your way I get it from a financial standpoint from a resume standpoint and for your own livelihood standpoint I get it. I'm not going to throw a lot of flak at people who sign on for this project But if they do a full fledged reboot, what path do you even go down? What are they going to do? Obviously, I would keep it in the same world. But how do you make the story attractive to audiences with? Well Again, all you need is ghost face. I mean they they should be all right If they keep ghost face intact and don't change anything around with ghost face and don't lose roger But you know the story itself might just be so unappealing to diehards that diehards miss out on it But like I've always stated we don't make up most of the general audience the general audience will still show up and Make this movie very profitable, especially if it's made for cheap Let's say this movie is made for 20 million and it makes 100 million. That's a hit Same formula it shouldn't be made for anything over 100 million or anything close to over 50 million even because it's a slasher film But you guys let me know what you think about this down in the comment section below if you haven't already, of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post notification numbers video in the description. 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