Jenna Ortega says she left 'Scream VII' because the production was 'falling apart'

Jenna Ortega has yet spoken up astir her departure from “Scream VII.”

In a caller interview with The Cut, the “Death of a Unicorn” prima admitted that her determination to permission the slasher franchise “had thing to bash with wage oregon scheduling. The Melissa worldly was happening, and it was each benignant of falling apart.”

In November 2023, Spyglass Media Group, the accumulation institution down the films, fired Melissa Barrera aft the histrion made a bid of societal media posts surrounding the Israel-Hamas war.

Barrera was accused of anti-Semitism, a assertion she refuted successful an April 2024 interrogation with The Times.

“It wasn’t casual to beryllium labeled arsenic thing truthful horrible erstwhile I knew that wasn’t the case,” the Mexican-born histrion said astatine the time. “I did person opportunities taken distant from me. But I ever trusted God, trusted that everything was going to enactment retired for me.”

A time aft Barrera was fired, Ortega announced that she was besides leaving the production. At the time, Deadline reported that Ortega’s departure was due to the fact that of a scheduling struggle with shooting the 2nd play of the Netflix deed amusement “Wednesday.”

A period aft some starring stars near the franchise, manager Christopher Landon, who was initially slated to nonstop “Scream VII,” announced his resignation from the project.

Ghostface and Jenna Ortega successful 2022’s “Scream.”

(Brownie Harris / Paramount Pictures / Spyglass Media Group)

“I conjecture present is arsenic bully a clip arsenic immoderate to denote I formally exited Scream 7 weeks ago,” Landon said successful a station connected X. “This volition disappoint immoderate and delight others. It was a imagination occupation that turned into a nightmare. And my bosom did interruption for everyone involved. Everyone. But it’s clip to determination on.”

“If ‘Scream VII’ wasn’t going to beryllium with that squad of directors and those radical I fell successful emotion with, past it didn’t look similar the close determination for maine successful my vocation astatine the time,” Ortega told The Cut.

The “Scream” bid dates backmost to the 1996 original, directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson.

In March 2024, the screenwriter declared successful an Instagram post that helium volition beryllium taking implicit arsenic manager of “Scream VII” and volition beryllium bringing backmost the archetypal “Scream” histrion Neve Campbell to play Sidney Prescott.

“It’s been astir 30 years since my precise archetypal script, Scream, was directed by the legendary Wes Craven,” Williamson wrote successful an Instagram post. “I ne'er would person predicted what it would become. Or that I would beryllium directing the seventh installment of the franchise. I americium flooded with gratitude and excitement, and I can’t hold to instrumentality this travel with Neve and the full Scream household arsenic we bring backmost Sidney Prescott successful the adjacent section of the Scream franchise.”

Times diagnostic writer Mark Olsen, Fast Break newsman Summer Lin and erstwhile De Los unit writer Alejandra Molina contributed to this report.