Within the wake of Scream franchise star Melissa Barrera being let go from her function in Scream VII on account of perceived inflammatory feedback on social media in regards to the Israel and Hamas battle, co-star Jenna Ortega has left the movie.
The information, reported by Deadline, follows yesterday’s announcement that Barrera was now not part of the forged. Nonetheless, the commerce notes that Ortega leaving the movie was beforehand mentioned earlier than the strikes, and that “a script for Scream VII will not be prepared but, and the Primetime Emmy nominee has to move to Eire in April to shoot the second season of Netflix’s Wednesday which can go into the summer season.” The timing of this information may be very attention-grabbing, to say the least.
Within the latest reboot of the franchise, which began with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s Scream in 2022 and continued with this yr’s Scream VI from the identical directing staff, Ortega and Barrera performed sisters tormented by a brand new technology of Ghostface killers. As a result of success of these movies, Scream VII was announced in August, with Christopher Landon (Freaky) on the helm.
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