344 - Scream 7 (Ryan's Audio Commentary) - PUBLIC PREVIEW

Hello, everybody, and welcome to Scream with Ryan C. Showers.

I'm your host, Ryan C. Showers.

Thank you for joining me for today's episode.

So this episode is really important to me.

It should be important to a lot of Scream fans.

I'm going to be performing an audio commentary of Scream 7.

So Kevin Williamson's Scream 7, starring Neve Campbell, the movie of the moment [laughs] really.

The movie that has kind of defined a lot of my professional life, if you think about it, within the podcast over the last three years.

I mean, yeah, you could look at Scream 3, and I'm actually insanely proud of that, um, the audio commentary I did for Scream 3.

Um, I feel like a lot of the podcast has been me trying to argue and defend Scream 3, uh, and, you know, kind of make people see it for how I see it or understand that it's not, um, whatever, uh, the surface level critiques of it were back in the day.

Around the year of 2023 after Scream VI, a lot of us wanted Sidney Prescott back in the Scream movies.

For me, I looked at Scream 5 versus Scream VI, and back then I was a lot warmer on Scream 5 than I am today.

Um, I still think Scream 5 is an, an insanely better movie than Scream VI.

I don't get the Scream VI people.

I don't.

I'm sorry.

I, I can't.

But, um, you know, one thing I remember watching Scream 5 after Scream VI and being like, "What feels different? What is so off?" And it was the fact that Neve Campbell wasn't there.

I, I saw the image of Sam and Sidney and Gale at the end, and Sidney, um, was there with them, and I was just like, "Yeah, it's her.

I miss her," you know? And I guess, like, back then, like, I wanted Scream 7 to be-- 'Cause back then we thought we were stuck with Sam, you know, and this, uh, ongoing s- prequel storyline.

So the best I was hoping for was that Sidney would be a co-lead, a number two to Sam.

Um, in fact, Joey Valisi wrote a magnificent, uh, version of Scream 7 back when the writers' strike was going on and the actors' strike was going on, and, um, Scream 7 was stalled in, in the production.

And in Joey's script, how it broke down was if we would be looking at screen time, right, that Sam would have had maybe 35 minutes of screen time and Sidney would have had 29, 30 minutes of screen time.

So she would have been the obvious co-lead number two to Sam, but it was still kind of Sam's story.

So, you know, that was the best I was hoping for with Scream 7.