Laurie Metcalf Broke Her Silence On Those Scream 7 Rumors With A Four Word Response

by admin | Oct 2, 2025 | Articles, Cinemablend Articles

Fans of scary movies have been thriving for years, thanks to the genre’s ongoing renaissance. Some of the best horror movies have returned to theaters with new sequels, including Wes Craven’s Scream. The seventh installment is one of the most highly anticipated upcoming horror movies, and it will feature a number of (dead) legacy characters. Now Scream 2 actress Laurie Metcalf has broken her silence on the rumors of her return with a four-word response.

What we know about Scream 7 is very limited, but fans are excited about the return a number of legacy characters. In addition to Neve Campbell’s return as Sidney, we’re also being treated to Matthew Lillard’s Stu Macher, Scott Foley’s Roman Bridger, and even David Arquette’s Dewey, despite his death in the fifth movie. Laurie Metcalf was recently interviewed by ET, where she was asked if she’d be down to play Nancy Loomis again. She said:

Netflix subscription. Mrs. Loomis was an unexpected but great Ghostface killer, becoming the final foe for Sidney and Gale to vanquish in Scream 2. So it would be wild to see her back in the role after all these years.

Since Skeet Ulrich appeared in the last two Scream movies as the ghost of Billy Loomis, bringing back Laurie Metcalf could offer the first time that we’ve seen Billy and Nancy on screen together. Exactly how this would work logically is unclear, but director Kevin Williamson has some tricks up his sleeve with the inclusion of so many dead legacy characters in the seventh movie.

While Metcalf hasn’t been confirmed for the next slasher, her character was memorialized throughout the runtime of Scream VI. In the New York City-based movie, there’s a ton of action in a shrine/museum of the Ghostface killers. Their masks, murder weapons and clothes are collected, along with items from the various victims. Nancy Loomis’ blazer and gun are included within the displays.

There are countless questions about’s coming in Scream 7 and which/how legacy characters will be used. But the marketing is seemingly beginning soon, as we were just recently treated to the movie’s official logo.

Scream 7 is set to arrive in theaters on February 27th as part of the 2026 movie release list. Hopefully we’ll get some more information about its mysterious contents soon. For now, the franchise can be re-watched on Paramount+.

The Running Man Won’t Have Stephen King’s Controversial Ending, And Edgar Wright Admits Getting The Author’s Approval Of The Changes Was ‘Nerve-Wracking’

by admin | Oct 2, 2025 | Articles, Cinemablend Articles

Welcome to October, Stephen King fans! This, of course, is the spookiest month of the year, and it’s thus a favorite time for Constant Readers: the ideal 31-day period to marathon every horrific King movie and perhaps induce nightmares by reading books like Pet Sematary or Revival before bed. As far as new adaptations go, the next one set to arrive is IT: Welcome To Derry, which will be premiering on HBO on October 26 – but for this week’s edition of The King Beat, we’re going to be skipping ahead a bit and talking about the last King blockbuster of 2025: Edgar Wright’s The Running Man.

The lead story for this column concerns alterations that are being made to the third act of the Glen Powell-led remake, but it’s not the only headline out of the world of Stephen King, as we also have the director of the new movie Good Boy sharing his own King-centric career aspirations and a fresh look into the making of Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk. There is a whole lot to discuss, so let’s dig in!

Edgar Wright Prepares Stephen King Fans For A Changed Ending In His Running Man Adaptation – Noting It Got The Stamp Of Approval From King Himself

Edgar Wright was developing a new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man, I was struck with two thoughts. The first was that the project felt overdue, as while the book is fantastic and one of the author’s best early works, the previous film version starring Arnold Schwarzenegger bares almost no resemblance to the text. My second thought was, “There is absolutely no way that they stay faithful to the ending.”

love to see the blockbuster go for the bold, dark ending that is in the source material… but apparently it’s definitely not happening. Wright has confirmed that a new ending has been crafted for his take on The Running Man – and he has admitted that getting the choices approved by Stephen King was an anxiety-ridden experience.

Starring Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, Colman Domingo, and Lee Pace, The Running Man won’t be arriving in theaters until November 14, but a spoiler-free preview of the upcoming Stephen King movie’s ending has been published by the UK magazine Film Stories. In an interview, Edgar Wright admits that doing a straight adaptation of the book’s conclusion was never really on the table, and that one of the most panicked days of the whole experience making the feature was sending King the script that he co-wrote with Michael Bacall including said ending. Explained the filmmaker,

For those of you who haven’t read Stephen King’s The Running Man and don’t really know what I’m talking about here, I’ll just bluntly spell it out: the end of the story features the protagonist getting revenge on the main villain by hijacking an airplane and flying it into a skyscraper. People have noted the disturbing similarities between the novel’s conclusion and the horrific events that transpired on September 11, 2001, and it seems that Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall made the call to avoid that minefield entirely.

In addition to the filmmakers knowing that they weren’t going to adapt the ending of the book, Stephen King apparently knew as well, so he was prepared to digest an original conclusion to the tale of a dystopian game show where a contestant is hunted by a team of killers and has to try and survive out in the world for as long as they can. Fortunately, the anxiety that Edgar Wright felt was eased when he got a positive response from King about his work:

We now have just about a month-and-a-half of waiting left to see before we get to see the ending ourselves – and you can be sure that we’ll be writing plenty more about The Running Man between now and the film’s mid-November release.

Netflix was developing a new adaptation of Cujo, there was an update from the trades saying that Darren Aronofsky was being tapped to helm the project. That was an exciting development to learn, as Aronofsky is one of the elite filmmakers working today – but if his vision for the project ends up falling through, there is another director who would like to throw his hat into the right: Ben Leonberg.

For those who don’t know the name, Leonberg has earned great acclaim in recent months for his feature directorial debut Good Boy, which is a new horror film that features the filmmaker’s dog, Indy, as its protagonist. Clearly he loves his canine companion, but he is also a major Stephen King fan, and when he was recently asked by CinemaBlend’s Sarah El-Mahmoud about taking on an adaptation, Cujo was the first title that he name-dropped:

Darren Aronofsky does end up making his movie for Netflix, Leonberg has other ideas as well.

While the filmmaker didn’t specifically name any other titles in the recent interview, he did note that his introduction to Stephen King came via the author’s many collections of novellas and short stories. A great number of those have been used as source material for movies (Creepshow, Cat’s Eye, Children Of The Corn, Maximum Overdrive, Graveyard Shift, and The Shawshank Redemption, to name a few), but there are plenty that haven’t been adapted yet, and Leonberg would love the chance to bring something new to the screen:

Leonberg added that he sees Stephen King as a master of the “what if” scenario (“What if a teenage girl had psychic powers? What if an alcoholic father and his family were trapped in a haunted hotel?”), and he thinks there are a number of short stories waiting to be properly explored:

Following its world premiere earlier this year at the SXSW Film Festival, Good Boy arrives in theaters this Friday, October 3.

Lionsgate that digs into the making of The Long Walk. This probably won’t surprise you at all to learn, but I am a total nerd, and I’m always interested to learn about all of the various calls and decisions that go into the making of a movie. The Long Walk is a special case in this regard, as it was long considered a book to be unadaptable, and a collection of very talented filmmakers tried and failed to bring the novel to the big screen before director Francis Lawrence, screenwriter JT Mollner, and producer Roy Lee found a way.

This new video doesn’t dig into the full history of The Long Walk in Hollywood (for example, there is no mention of the efforts made by George A. Romero, nor does Frank Darabont get a shoutout), but it does address that Francis Lawrence’s path to making the horror film was a winding one that began with disappointment. Previous visions saw their forward progress killed by a big “no,” but Lawrence eventually saw his “no” turn into a yes – and now, the final product of his work is playing in theaters everywhere.

That wraps up this week’s edition of The King Beat, but as always, I’ll be back here on CinemaBlend next Thursday with a new column examining all of the biggest stories in the world of Stephen King.

Mark Kerr Went To Set While The Rock Was Playing Him, But It Was His Son’s Reaction To The Smashing Machine That Stuck With Him: ‘He’s Almost Like Whispering’

by admin | Oct 2, 2025 | Articles, Cinemablend Articles

The 2025 movie schedule is about to unleash a film that could very well mark an important milestone for wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne Johnson. His starring role as MMA legend Mark Kerr in the upcoming biopic The Smashing Machine, saw the man also known as WWE Superstar The Rock getting a 15 minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival, and word is also floating around that he may nab his first Oscar nomination for the role. Now, Kerr has opened up about visiting the set during filming, and his son’s emotional reaction to seeing Johnson portray him.

What Did Mark Kerr Say About Being On The Smashing Machine Set As Dwayne Johnson Played Him?

There are only a precious few people who will ever know what it’s like to have a film made about them (especially since such things frequently happen after said subject is no longer with us), but now early MMA/UFC fighter Mark Kerr is one of those people. Those who’ve already seen The Smashing Machine have lauded Dwayne Johnson’s “scarily unstable” performance as Kerr, while those he worked with, like co-star Emily Blunt, have talked about how he was able to “completely disappear” into the real-life character of Kerr.

Sports Illustrated that it was, indeed, a trip. He remembered:

willing to do things like “rip your rib cage open” to portray a living person’s story, and it sounds a bit like Kerr experienced something similarly tough when seeing Johnson as him for the first time. He continued, and noted that his son had an even stronger response after watching the movie:

The upcoming A24 movie hits theaters on October 3, so we’ll all be able to see how The Smashing Machine affects us very soon.