Why Scream 2022 Isn’t Scream 5 (Is It A Reboot?)
A new Scream movie is on the way in 2022, but it’ll simply be titled Scream, not the logical choice of Scream 5, and here’s why that’s the case.
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A new Scream movie is on the way in 2022, but it’ll simply be titled Scream, not the logical choice of Scream 5, and here’s why that’s the case. Next year, it’s time to head back to Woodsboro, as the Scream franchise gets rejuvenated. It’ll have been eleven long years since Scream 4 came out, which tended to be rated higher than Scream 3, but came and went without cleaning up at the box office or making much of a lasting pop culture impact. Fans remain due for a proper follow-up to Scream, Wes Craven’s original classic, and Scream 2, a not-as-good but still pretty fun sequel.
Alas, the new Scream coming in 2022 will be the first entry into the storied franchise without legendary horror director Wes Craven at the helm, who passed away in 2015 at the age of 76. For quite a while, the Scream franchise stars – such as Neve Campbell – expressed hesitancy toward the possibility of doing another Scream without Craven.
Thankfully for fans, they eventually changed their mind, with the Scream “holy trinity” of Campbell, David Arquette, and Courteney Cox set to reprise their roles of Sidney, Dewey, and Gale, respectively. The fact that they came aboard says encouraging things about what directing duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who made 2019’s excellent horror/comedy Ready or Not, have in store for the Scream faithful. However, many were left confused by the decision to just title the new movie Scream. Is it a sequel or a reboot? The answer to that is, to an extent at least, both.
Scream 2022 (aka Scream 5) isn’t a reboot in the most literal sense, as it doesn’t erase the prior films, and is technically a follow-up to the Woodsboro story that followed Sidney, Dewey, and Gale through four movies. However, star Cox has said that the intent is to use the 2022 movie as a launching pad for a new iteration of the franchise, seemingly in the way a Jurassic World or Halloween 2018 managed to do. Speaking of the latter, that points to a possible reason why the title is simply Scream.
While Halloween 2018 presented itself as a belated sequel to John Carpenter’s original, it was also obviously intended to try and reignite the overall franchise after several lackluster entries. The idea was to drop much of the convoluted mythology that permeated the sequels, and take a back-to-basics approach. It worked, and the Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends double shot was greenlit. Those behind Scream 2022 definitely want to experience a similar success story, with sequels to the new movie coming later. The biggest question though is whether or not any of the returning cast members will make it out of Scream 5 alive, or leave carrying further sequels to the newly introduced stars.
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