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\u201cI\u2019ve said goodbye to this franchise so many times that it\u2019s crazy,\u201d says Williamson. \u201cWe had a very difficult time making Scream 4<\/a>. And, after Wes died, I thought it was done. I thought, for me, this franchise is over. I hoped it would continue in some form, but not with me.\u201d<\/p>\n Well, he could not have been more wrong. On the heels of an overhaul, notably the firing of Melissa Barrera<\/a> and the departures of Jenna Ortega<\/a> and director Christopher Landon<\/a>, he was brought back in for Scream 7<\/a> and found himself more involved than ever. He directed and co-wrote the feature, which has now grossed north of $150 million…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Scream calls, Kevin Williamson tends to pick up the call. The creator of the horror franchise has been a franchise constant since he penned the script for the 1996 Wes Craven-directed original, his involvement waxing and waning. \u201cI\u2019ve said goodbye to this franchise so many times that it\u2019s crazy,\u201d says Williamson. \u201cWe had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2324788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2324787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Kevin-Williamson-Discusses-the-Evolution-of-\u2018Scream-and-a-Fond.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324789,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324787\/revisions\/2324789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}