When Christopher Landon signed on to direct Scream 7 , he wasn’t just looking to helm another slasher flick. He was looking to direct a movie built around Melissa Barrera ’s character, Sam Carpenter,

Original “Scream 7” director Christopher Landon reveals in the new book “Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror” (via Entertainment Weekly) that he exited the horror sequel “about a week after” Spyglass Entertainment fired Melissa Barrera due to social media posts she wrote about Israel and Palestine.

Christopher Landon, the director originally attached to helm Scream 7, has opened up about his decision to exit the franchise ‘about a week’ after Melissa Barrera was fired. Though the iconic slasher franchise Scream welcomed new blood in the form of Melissa Barrera and Wednesday‘s Jenna Ortega to 2022’s soft reboot and its sequel Scream VI,