Paramount Pictures unveils the official poster of Scream , playing with the metanarrative language of the saga.
The poster portrays Sidney ( Neve Campbell ), Dewey ( David Arquette ), Gale ( Courteney Cox ) and the other protagonists of the film, along with a self-referenced tagline : “The killer is on this poster” . It never happens that a poster refers to itself in the launch slogan, but Scream confirms itself as the meta-horror franchise par excellence.
In fact, the killer is likely to appear on the poster: behind the Ghostface mask , in previous chapters, there has always been a character from the main cast. We cannot exclude, however, that the film makes fun of us, and that that tagline refers to the same Ghostface , whose “face” dominates the composition. Maybe.
The new incarnation of the killer will target Sam Carpenter ( Melissa Barrera ) and other Woodsboro boys, forcing Sidney , Dewey and Gale to return to action to stop him. Some time ago, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (the same of Till Death Do Us Part ) declared that the new film is a love letter to the original , and that the first trailer is full of red herrings .
The US release is expected on January 14, 2022 , while the Italian one is not yet available; However, it is known that Eagle Pictures will handle the distribution. You will find the poster below.
The poster
The killer is on this poster 🩸🔪 #SCREAM brings back their iconic cast line-up in new official poster!
In theaters January 14, 2022. pic.twitter.com/ejvuFEA3Tk— SCREAM (@TheScreamSeries) December 13, 2021
The cast
Cast includes Neve Campbell ( Sidney Prescott ), David Arquette ( Dewey Riley ), Courteney Cox ( Gale Weathers ), Melissa Barrera , Jenna Ortega , Jack Quaid , Mason Gooding , Dylan Minnette , Marley Shelton , Kyle Gallner , Jasmin Savoy Brown , Mikey Madison and Sonia Ammar .
The screenplay
The screenplay is the work of James Vanderbilt ( Zodiac, The Amazing Spider-Man ) and Guy Busick ( Til Death Do Us Part, Castle Rock ).
Scream in cinema and on TV
The saga so far has four cinematic chapters, all directed by Wes Craven . The scripts are almost all by Kevin Williamson (the creator of Dawson’s Creek ), apart from the third film, written by Ehren Kruger instead .
The franchise moved to the small screen in 2015, in an MTV series that lasted two seasons. A third season – actually unrelated to the previous two – aired in 2019 on VH1.