There are so many rumors circulating in regards to the MTV television adaption of the Scream franchise. The series has been in development for over two years now, and we still aren’t any closer to seeing a pilot now then when “Scream: The TV Series” was first announced in June 2012. We have casting announcements, we know that Wes Craven will be one of the executive producers, and we have a very vague synopsis, but that’s about it.
More-so, horror fans have been commenting on the lack of series continuity as “Scream: The TV Series” has no relation to the original four feature films at this point. None of the main actors – Neve Campbell (Sydney), David Arquette (Dewey), Courtney Cox (Gail Weathers) – will be returning, and last month it was reported that the original, white, long-chinned Ghostface mask will not be making an appearance in the television show either.
I guess after being inundated with questions and criticisms about the decision not to use the iconic Ghostface mask should the television series ever get into gear, Mina Lefevre – a MTV senior vice president and the head of scripted development – had this to say in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:
“It’s a darker, almost more grounded, evolved version of the mask. It’s something we’re constantly talking about. How did that mask become that mask? What’s its purpose? How did it evolve? If the Scream movie mask was the more plastic version, for a lack of a better description, this one is a more organic looking and frankly darker version.
Scream was incredibly iconic, but we wanted to reinvent that for TV while of course keeping all the main elements that made it so iconic, including a mask, but also the soapy teen stories, pop culture humor, the scares and the killer. We’re tonally walking that line, yet delivering the scares in a significant way. The mask was a big discussion creatively. We wanted to get a nod and a wink to what the original was, but we definitely wanted to make it more on par with what horror is now, which is darker.”
