‘Scream’ actor Alison Brie explains huge problem with the franchise
Alison Brie has detailed the one problem she believes all the recent Scream sequels have, since her appearance in 2011’s Scream 4.
Speaking alongside her husband, Dave Franco, on the Shut Up Evan podcast, Brie shared that she hopes to return to the franchise despite her character dying. She initially played the publicist Rebecca Walters in Scream 4. In the movie, she was stabbed in the abdomen by Ghostface and perished.
However, noting that David Arquette, Matthew Lillard and Scott Foley would reprise their deceased characters in the seventh instalment, Brie willed the same fate for her character.
“Alison was famously in Scream 4,” Franco mentioned on the podcast. “I feel like with new Scream rules, even though she dies brutally, we could bring her back.” She replied: “Yeah, where’s my role in Scream 7?”
She also commented, “I hear tons of people are coming back. … I mean, Hayden [Panettiere] came back in [Scream] 6.”
Later, she commented that, in her eyes, the “problem with the current era” of the franchise was due to the survival of the “core four” characters. She said, “Too many people live. The ‘core four’ needs to die. We killed [Jamie Kennedy’s Randy Meeks] in Scream 2. We should be down to two of the ‘core four,’ just by Scream 7.”
However, Brie did add that her reasoning only stemmed so far, after the character of Dewey Riley, played by Arquette, was killed off in 2022. She noted that his death was” very sad” and “a mistake. Keep the main three,” she insisted.
Brie and Franco have been part of a recent scandal regarding their latest movie, Together. The couple, who have been married since 2017, will play a co-dependent couple who move to the countryside but encounter a mysterious force that horrifically causes their bodies to merge.
Alongside director Michael Shanks, the couple has been named defendants in a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement on the upcoming film. The lawsuit alleged that Together is a “blatant rip-off” of Better Half, a 2023 independent movie written and directed by Patrick Henry Phelan.
Elsewhere in the upcoming slasher comedy, Melissa Barrera was fired from the production after making pro-Palestinian comments on social media amid the Israel war against Hamas, which were deemed by the producers, Spyglass Media Group, to be antisemitic. In solidarity, Jenna Ortega then quit the franchise after starring in two movies of its reboot.
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