Original ‘Scream 7’ Directors Say Their Version Was Going to ‘F— You Up’: ‘How Hard Can We Go With This?’

Original “Scream 7” directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett recently sat down with Entertainment Weekly and shared some details about their unrealized vision for the horror sequel.

Although they knew they wanted to test the boundaries of “how hard we can go” with “Scream 7,” Bettinelli-Olpin said he and Gillet never got that far in development because they left the franchise to direct the 2024 vampire-thriller “Abigail.”

“We never read a draft of any version of ‘Scream 7’ that we were going to do because we had left to do ‘Abigail’ before that,” Bettinelli-Olpin said. “The thing that we had in our minds for ‘Scream 7’ was sort of like, ‘How hard can we go with this?’ It was the thing that we talked a lot about. For us, it was always this idea of, [if] ‘Scream 6’ is like a secret feel-good movie, ‘Scream 7’s’ going to fuck you up. That…