Christopher Landon, who was originally set to direct 'Scream 7,' is setting the record straight; he says he did not fire Melissa Barrera from the film. Landon spoke about what happened after Barrera was dropped from 'Scream 7' in November 2023 because of her posts about the Israel-Hamas war on social media. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Landon recalled receiving a phone call from Spyglass Media Group, the production company behind the movie, telling him the news that she was let go. He remembers everything "came tumbling down in an instant."
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00:00Christopher Landon, who was originally set to direct Scream 7, is setting the record straight.
00:04He says he did not fire Melissa Barrera from the film.
00:08Landon is speaking out about what happened after Barrera was dropped from Scream 7 in November 2023
00:13because of her posts about the Israel-Hamas war on social media.
00:17In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Landon recalled receiving a phone call from Spyglass Media Group,
00:22the production company behind the movie, telling him the news that she was let go.
00:26He remembers everything, quote, came tumbling down in an instant.
00:29And when Barrera's co-star Jenna Ortega voluntarily left the film following her being fired,
00:34he says things started to get, quote, highly aggressive and really scary
00:37because people blamed Landon for the situation.
00:40He said,
00:41People were threatening to kill me and my family, to the point where the FBI was getting involved.
00:46I got messages saying, I'm going to find your kids and I'm going to kill them because you support child murder.
00:51The head of security at various studios and the FBI had to examine the threats.
00:55Landon continued, I did not fire her.
00:58A lot of people think I had something to do with it and it was not my doing.
01:02I had no control of the situation at all.
01:04Because of the backlash, he decided to exit the movie himself.
01:07He said,
01:08The hate and abuse really spoiled it for me and I lost my love for the idea of going forward.
01:12Landon's latest movie, Drop, hits theaters this weekend.
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