MTV's 'Scream' gets full series order

[Coop 14,968]

 

Finally, Teen Wolf has a scary friend.
MTV has handed a full series order to its TV adaptation of Scream, the 1996 slasher film and subsequent box office-busting horror franchise. The series will premiere in October 2015 with 10 episodes.

The co-production with Dimension TV was announced way back in May 2013 with the original announcement of a pilot order with Ravenswood writer Jill Blotevogel running the show and Jay Beattie and Dan Dworkin (Criminal Minds) penning the pilot script. The series found its cast and director (Faking It’s Jamie Travis) in August. Harvey and Bob Weinstein will executive produce alongside Wes Craven, Tony DiSanto, Liz Gateley, Marianne Maddalena, and Cathy Konrad.
The high school-set series will follow a slew of not-yet-slain students: shy popular girl Emma (Willa Fitzgerald), artsy loner Audrey (Bex Taylor-Klaus), computer geek Noah (John Karna), all-American athlete Will (Connor Weil), ferocious socialite Brooke (Carlson Young), and mysterious new kid Kieran (Amadeus Serafini). The show also stars Joel Gretsch as Sheriff Clark Hudson (Kieran’s father) and Tracy Middendorf as Maggie.

The horror drama seems a likely pair for MTV’s gargantuan supernatural hit Teen Wolf, which up until now has had free reign of the network’s teen horror genre. The series’ fifth season would serve as a strong lead-in for the similarly spooky Scream.

There is more horror to be had on TV, though; in related news, American Horror Story co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk recently announced a new anthology series on Fox titled Scream Queens, which will debut in fall 2015 and follow a college campus rocked by murders (in the first season). Murphy stated that he and Falchuk “hope to create a whole new genreâ€â€comedy-horror,†but original Scream creators Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven may agree to disagree about whether that genre’s already been duly created by the slasher franchise, which is as darkly funny as it is frightening (and, in the case of Drew Barrymore, gross).

 

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/28/mtv-scream/

[bionic 37,718]

I wonder if it'll be more slash fic than slash horror.

[Coop 14,968]

I wonder if it'll be more slash fic than slash horror.

I don't know but I'm definitely gonnna watch it cause I love the movies. And I hope we'll get another movie too :)

[No Angel 128]

Now this would be one hell of a series if it aired on Showtime! MTV? Not so much... The violence and language will most definitely be watered down.

[bionic 37,718]

I don't know but I'm definitely gonnna watch it cause I love the movies. And I hope we'll get another movie too :)

 

also WHY is Ryan Murphy making ANOTHER anthology series. we'll have 

 

American Horror Story

American Crime Story

Scream Queens

 

his work is rarely tasteful and the concept of a "college murder spree" will likely be really tacky considering the way he's handled it before [with the school shootings in Glee and AHS: Murder House]

 

I guess Glee's ending though, so he won't have to "write" for that anymore

[djBuffoon 11,638]

Now this would be one hell of a series if it aired on Showtime! MTV? Not so much... The violence and language will most definitely be watered down.

Exactly. What kind of PG-13 carnage can possibly satisfy the fans? :madge:

[stackhouse 3]

An idea of a Scream TV show is amazing, the movies are top-notch. But being handled by MTV? Teen Wolf is naff. No thanks.

[RebeldeFaith 3,798]

MTV?

 

I feel like this is going to be 1 episode of horror for every 3 episodes of teen "romance and friendship at it's best" tbh.

 

But I think they will probably use it to promote artists and djs nobody knows, like with TW and the other series.

 

But who knows?