Filmmaker Christopher Landon said in a new interview that he and his family received death threats in the weeks after Spyglass Media fired Melissa Barrera from the 'Scream' franchise. Landon was attached to direct 'Scream 7' in 2023,

"A lot of people think I had something to do with it, and it was not my doing. I had no control of the situation at all," the original director of the seventh Scream said about Barrera being dropped from the franchise.

If ‘Scream VII’ wasn’t going to be with that team of directors and those people I fell in love with, then it didn’t seem like the right move for me in my career at the time," the actress says