{"id":321210,"date":"2026-02-28T04:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321210\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:16:09","slug":"how-does-scream-7-address-melissa-barrera-and-jenna-ortegas-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321210\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does \u2018Scream 7\u2019 Address Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega\u2019s Absence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27047903\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scream 7<\/a>\u201d is shrieking into theaters surrounded by a fair amount of controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The film, co-written and directed by <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0932078\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Williamson<\/a>, whose original spec script (then titled \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0175142\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scary Movie<\/a>\u201d) kicked off the entire franchise, sees Sidney Prescott (<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000117\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neve Campbell<\/a>) trying to enjoy a quiet life with her family, including teenage daughter <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11069119\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tatum<\/a> (<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8908475\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isabel May<\/a>), when \u2013 wouldn\u2019t you know it? \u2013 she is stalked and harassed by a serial killer in a Ghostface mask.<\/p>\n<p>When the franchise was resurrected with 2022\u2019s \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117571\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scream<\/a>,\u201d the focus had been squarely on two new characters, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm16267076\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Carpenter<\/a> (<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4574440\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Barrera<\/a>) and her half-sister <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3188428\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tara Carpenter<\/a> (<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4911194\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Ortega<\/a>), who found that they were connected to the original&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cScream 7\u201d is shrieking into theaters surrounded by a fair amount of controversy. The film, co-written and directed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[33731,25503,33729,33730,321,9442,93,695,3211,61,60,33732,3212,904,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-321210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-acteurs","9":"tag-actrices","10":"tag-actualites","11":"tag-celebrites","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-cinema","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-films","16":"tag-hollywood","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-realisateurs","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}