MTV’s Scream TV Series Changing Ghostface Mask?!?

It was reported a couple weeks ago that MTV’s Scream TV Series Changing Ghostface Mask to a flesh style mask.

We have two words: BIG MISTAKE!

The Iconic mask that made the franchise a success, instead MTV’s show will go with a more “organic” look, with a mask made of flesh.

Is it a good idea to change the killer menacing look? Would you take away Jason’s Hockey mask or Freddyis knives, or Pinheads pins?

You wouldn’t because that would kill the franchise.

Well Mina Lefevre, MTV’s executive vice president doesn’t think so. See there are loads of movies in which teens are stabbed, tons with innocent victims receiving menacing phone calls and a whole bunch more that take a meta approach to the genre. Without the Ghostface mask, there’s nothing that makes this TV show Scream-specific

Thus far, all we know is that Willa Fitzgerald is playing the popular yet shy and intellectual Emma, Bex Taylor-Klaus is on board as Audrey, the artsy loner who wants to make movies, John Karna is playing computer genius Noah, Carlson Young is Brooke, the school queen bee and Amadeus Serafini is taking the role of Kieran, the mysterious new kid in town. Is any of that tied to the Scream legacy? Nope.

Lefevre insists that the show will keep the spirit of the films in tact, but I’m not buying it just yet.

“Scream was incredibly iconic, but we wanted to reinvent that for TV while of course keeping all the main elements that made it so iconic, including a mask, but also the soapy teen stories, pop culture humor, the scares and the killer. We’re tonally walking that line, yet delivering the scares in a significant way. The mask was a big discussion creatively. We wanted to get a nod and a wink to what the original was, but we definitely wanted to make it more on par with what horror is now, which is darker.”

Instead, Lefevre and her team are trying to subvert expectations by creating a new mask inspired by the Edvard Munch painting for the series:

“It’s a darker, almost more grounded, evolved version of the mask. It’s something we’re constantly talking about. How did that mask become that mask? What’s its purpose? How did it evolve? If the Scream movie mask was the more plastic version, for a lack of a better description, this one is a more organic looking and frankly darker version.”

Darker is fine. In fact, organic could be fine too, but according to EW, there’s been talk of this new mask being made of flesh. So this is a Texas Chainsaw Massacre-type spinoff then? The outlet does note that the folks behind the show are still developing the mask, but based on this description, it seems as though they’re going in the wrong direction.

We will just count the days until it’s cancellation if they continue on changing a successful franchise with a stupid theory and cliche approach.

Hopefully someone wakes up and puts their foot down and stops the madness.

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