Scream VI(2023).Photo: Paramount Pictures
Start spreading the news: Ghostface is back and headed to the Big Apple.
The fifth installment — starringWednesday’sJenna OrtegaandIn the Heights’Melissa Barrera— premiered in January 2022 and brought viewers back to Woodsboro, California, the sleepy town where Ghostface first embarked on a murderous rampage nearly 25 years earlier.
In the new film, the survivors of the previous installment face off against a whole new Ghostface — one that seems even more murderous and sadistic than its predecessors. And while the cast is staying mum on many of the film’s details — Cox previously joked, “You actually have to be killed if you talk about it, soI’m not gonna say anything,” — the directors have shared that the latest installment is “definitely more brazen and more aggressive” than the previous one.
“Part of our assignment onScream 5was to play the greatest hits, to really show that we were part of a long lineage of characters,” Gilletttold NME. “WithScream VIwe wanted to subvert that warm blanket, and make something that’s grittier and rawer.”
Another way to get fans out of their comfort zone? Release real Ghostfaces across the country!
On March 2, 2023, news broke that the marketing campaign for the movie enlistedreal people to dress as the spooky characterand appear in public. Ghostfaces were seen in Sonoma, California, New Orleans and St. Louis.
From which new faces are joining the cast to the premiere, here’s everything to know aboutScream VI.
Which cast members are coming back forScream 6?
Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding inScream VI(2023).Philippe Bossé/PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera are resuming their roles as onscreen sisters Sam and Tara Carpenter. Courtney Cox — who has appeared in all six installments of theScreamfranchise — is also returning as news reporter Gale Weathers.
Twin siblings Chad (Mason Gooding) and Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown) — two of the only other surviving cast members fromScream 5— are also joining the Carpenter sisters in N.Y.C.
Which new members are joining the cast?
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Panettiere spoke to PEOPLE abouther return to the franchisein August 2022, saying, “I’m so happy that this is going to be my first project back because I have such fond memories of doingScream 4.”
Samara Weaving,Josh Segarra,Liana Liberato,Tony RevoloriandDermot Mulroneyhave also joined the cast ofScream VI.
Which cast members are not returning?
Neve Campbell inScream(2022).Brownie Harris /Paramount Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection
Neve Campbell, who has played the starring role of Sidney Prescott in everyScreamfilm since the 1996 original, will not be appearing in the sixth installment. The actress announced her “very difficult decision” not to return to the franchise in June 2022.
“Sadly I won’t be making the nextScreamfilm. As a woman I have had to work extremely hard in my career to establish my value, especially when it comes toScream,” she said in a statement. “I felt the offer that was presented to me did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise.
In August, Campbell opened up further to PEOPLE about her decision to step away, sayingit was “truly” just “negotiation” related. “And as a woman in this business, I think it’s really important for us to be valued and to fight to be valued,” she explained. “I honestly don’t believe that if I were a man and had done five installments of a huge blockbuster franchise over 25 years, that the number that I was offered would be the number that would be offered to a man.”
FellowScreamalum David Arquette is also not expected to return forScream VI, as his character Dewey was killed in the last film.
Is there a trailer forScream 6?
Sam is then seen discussing her connection to the Ghostface slayer; in the previous installment, it was revealed that she’s the daughter of the original movie’s villain Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich). “There’s a darkness inside of me. It followed me here,” she says. “And it’s gonna keep coming for us.”
The trailer then shows the group uncovering something of a “shrine” to Ghostface before they plot how to take the killer down. Gale also has a one-on-one confrontation with the masked murderer in the trailer, during which she warns, “It never works out well for the dips—- in the mask,” to which Ghostface retorts, “Maybe, but there’s never been one like me, Gale.”
On Feb. 8, 2023,a new trailerwas released, featuring Ghostface terrorizing the group in their NYC home. In the clip, Panettiere warns, “This isn’t like any other Ghostface.”
The video also features Cox as well as a blood-curdling scream from Ortega.
What isScream 6about?
The latest installment picks up whereScream 5left off, with Tara, Mindy and Chad headed to N.Y.C. to attend the fictional Blackmore University and Sam tagging along to protect her younger sister.
An official synopsis reads, “TheScreamsaga continues with the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.”
Ortega toldEntertainment Tonightin June that “Ghostface gets a lot more intimidating” in the new movie. “I just read part of the script, and it just gets more and more gory. I think that this is probably the most aggressive and violent version of Ghostface we’ve ever seen, which I think will really be fun to shoot.”
Barrera echoed that sentiment during a September interview with Collider, saying thatScream VIwill be “a hundred times gorier.”
The actress explained that the directors were constantly asking for “more blood and more sweat” on set.
“With the lastScream, they were tip-toeing and trying to be very respectful of what the franchise had been up until that point and keeping their inner gory dreams at bay. But with this one, they were like, ‘We’re going all out,’ " she added.
When wasScream 6released?
Courteney Cox inScream VI(2023).Philippe Bossé/PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Scream VIwas released in theaters on March 10, 2023. 2022’sScreamis currentlyavailable to streamon Paramount+.
source: people.com
