At the end of last month, MTV picked up the television reboot of the popular horror franchise, Scream, for a 10-episode season. The show will feature a completely new cast of characters and apparently a new Ghostface...
Since the show has been in development, rumours have been claiming that MTV doesn't own the rights to Ghostface and that the killer wouldn't appear in the show at all. Thankfully there is no validity to those rumours whatsoever but that doesn't mean the killer will be the same.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, MTV's senior vice president Mina Lefevre stated,
"Scream was incredibly iconic, but we wanted to reinvent that for TV while of course keeping all the main elements that made it so iconic, including a mask, but also the soapy teen stories, pop culture humor, the scares and the killer. We’re tonally walking that line, yet delivering the scares in a significant way. The mask was a big discussion creatively. We wanted to get a nod and a wink to what the original was, but we definitely wanted to make it more on par with what horror is now, which is darker.”
Lefevre gave a little more details as to what we can expect from the new costume, the mask in particular:
"It’s a darker, almost more grounded, evolved version of the mask. It’s something we’re constantly talking about. How did that mask become that mask? What’s its purpose? How did it evolve? If the Scream movie mask was the more plastic version, for a lack of a better description, this one is a more organic looking and frankly darker version.”
Strangely enough, Lefevre doesn't debunk the possibility of the original Ghostface costume making an appearance in the show despite the reboot.
"It’s a little preliminary, obviously because we haven’t even started our writers room, to say that we will never see that other mask or not."
So what do you horror fans on this site think of this news? Are excited to see a newer, darker version of Ghostface or should MTV stick with the original material? As always, leave your thoughts below.
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