When writer-director Christopher Landon departed “Scream VII” in 2023, there was what he says really happened and then there was a perceived story of what went down.

Landon – helmer of popular horror tiles including “Happy Death Day” in 2017 and 2020’s “Freaky,” and the son of “Little House on the Prairie” star Michael Landon – left the “Scream” franchise shortly after then-star Melissa Barerra was fired from the project , following social media posts she shared around that time about the war in Gaza.

“There was no movie anymore. The whole script was about her,” Landon said in the newly published book, “Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror” by Ashley Cullins, via Entertainment Weekly . “I didn’t sign on to make ‘a ‘Scream’ movie. I signed on to

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