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The typeface on the title card and in the opening credits of the 1996 film. Just van Rossum drew it for FontFont in 1992 to look like something off a fax machine. Paid, about $59.99. Most people get this wrong, because the poster logo and the on screen title in the first film are not the same typeface.
MyFontsThe silver SCREAM wordmark is Futura Extra Bold with the middle of the M pulled down into a spike below the baseline. Paul Renner drew Futura for Bauer in 1927. Nobody sells the spiked M, so no off the shelf Futura matches it exactly.
Adobe Fonts MyFontsA free replica of the logo with the spiked M already built in, in regular, outline and alternate weights. Free for personal use. The quickest way to make something that looks right.
DaFont Famous Fonts, direct zip Preview itA different take on the same logo by Norfok Incredible Font Design. Free for personal use, commercial use needs a word with the designer. TrueType and PostScript, 47 characters.
FontSpaceStencils and printables
The full face, the silhouette, the emblem, a close up of the face and a scarier version. Print from the page and tape it to the pumpkin. The emblem one lets you put a name on it.
Full face Silhouette Emblem Face ScaryTen designs in a single printable file, from clean to properly nasty.
Download the PDFA second set, drawn for carving rather than tracing.
Download the PDFA face for carving into the pumpkin and a plain stencil for painting it on instead.
Carving PaintingA clean line drawing to colour in. Prints on one sheet.
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A single A4 template you print onto card, cut out and fold. Half an hour or so start to finish. Free for personal use.
FreePaperModelThree files: mask up, mask down and the whole mask, 240 by 150 by 40 millimetres. Credit, remix, non commercial. Over two thousand four hundred people have downloaded it.
MyMiniFactoryThe aged, horned version, built from an earlier upload and cleaned up for printing.
PrintablesSplit into a top piece and a mouth section with vents cut in, so it prints without supports and you can actually breathe in it.
ThingiverseA small desk sized figure. Nearly twelve hundred people have liked it and eighty eight have printed one.
PrintablesThe files the other two Ghost Face prints on this page were built from.
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SCREAM: THE TV SERIES
For two seasons this show did not use the Ghost Face mask, and that was not an accident.
The mask in seasons one and two is called the Brandon James mask. It is a pale, weathered, close fitting face with black eye holes and a small round mouth, and the story says it grew out of the surgical masks Brandon wore between reconstructive operations. MTV teased it in November 2014 and showed it properly on June 4, 2015. R. J. Torbert at Fun World had already told fans in October 2014 that Ghost Face was not involved in the new show, which is the licensing side of the same story. Fun World went on to make the retail version itself, sold in Halloween shops from 2015 as the MTV Scream adult mask, item FW-93501.
The official line was that it was a creative decision. MTV’s Mina Lefevre called it "a more organic looking and frankly darker version" of the film mask and said they were constantly asking how that mask became that mask. Showrunner Jill Blotevogel said it evokes the Jason hockey mask and the white Michael Myers mask but is still first and foremost evocative of the Scream mask. Executive producer Jaime Paglia put it plainly: the mask is so iconic that using it on a show following none of the film characters would mislead the audience.
The practical reason is simpler. Ghost Face belongs to Fun World, and MTV did not have the license. They got it for season three, and the moment they did, the real mask went on and Roger L. Jackson came with it.
Wes Craven approved the redesign at first, saying the new mask was cool and scary and took the series in a new direction. In his last interviews he sounded less sure, saying that across all the Scream films they never messed with the mask, that something was not broken so they did not fix it, and comparing it to his regret over redesigning Freddy Krueger for New Nightmare.
The reaction on the day was not kind. Collider said it looked more like a bondage toy than a horror mask. Fun World went on to manufacture a licensed version of it for shops anyway.
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SPOILER ALERT This file gives away who the killer is.
The 1994 killings, the boy blamed for them, and the thing the show waits two seasons to tell you.
Brandon James grew up in Lakewood with an older brother, Troy, next door to a girl called Daisy Anderson, who later changed her name to Maggie Duval. He had Proteus syndrome, which deformed his face badly. He went through operation after operation, wore recovery masks in between, was home schooled by his mother, and had a father who was ashamed of him. Troy protected him.
He and Daisy were childhood friends who became teenage lovers. He carved her a necklace and left her notes. She was pregnant at fifteen, and her family made her give the baby up. That baby is Piper Shaw.
On Halloween night 1994 Brandon confronted Kevin Duval over how he treated Maggie at a school dance, and was beaten badly by Kevin’s friends. That night he killed five of them. He went after Kevin and failed. Police followed Maggie to a meeting at Wren Lake, where he is said to have told her that all he ever wanted was to be with her, and they shot him in the back. He went off the dock while she watched.
The reveal, seeded through season two and paid off in the finale and the Halloween special, is that he did not die. Maggie and Miguel Acosta helped him survive and disappear, and they were the only two who knew. Maggie came to believe he had been framed for at least part of 1994. His old note to her turns up slashed with a bloody knife mark. Season two ends with a voice on the phone to Kieran in his cell: "Hello, Kieran. Who told you you could wear my mask?" At the end of the Halloween special Brandon James walks back into the show.
One detail matters more than it looks. The mask was stolen from him about a year before the 1994 murders. That is the hook the whole framing argument hangs on.
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Three seasons, four killers, and one of them is still the only person in the whole franchise to be murdered in custody.
SEASON ONE. Piper Shaw, unmasked at Wren Lake in Revelations on September 1, 2015. She is Brandon James and Maggie Duval’s daughter, given up in a closed adoption and raised at the Blessed Sisters Children’s Home. Her motive is the mother who gave her away and the half sister who got the life she did not. She staged the whole thing as a reboot of her father’s spree and used her podcast as cover. Kieran Wilcox was her secret accomplice. Audrey shot her, Emma finished it, at the same spot where Brandon was shot.
SEASON TWO. Kieran Wilcox, unmasked at the Zenith Theater in When a Stranger Calls on August 16, 2016. He carried on alone out of rage at Piper’s death and to bury anyone who could expose him, and by his own account because killing people is more fun than therapy. His father abandoned him in Atlanta to feed a pill habit, and his mother and stepfather died in a crash he caused. He is not killed. He gets ten consecutive life sentences.
THE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL. The Shallow Grove Island killer is Alex Whitten, real name Tom Martin. Separately, an unidentified third person in a Brandon James mask cuts Kieran’s throat in his cell, which makes him the only killer in the entire franchise to be murdered in custody.
SEASON THREE. Beth is Ghost Face, with Jamal Elliot as her accomplice. Beth has no revenge motive at all, which makes her the first in the franchise like that. She decided she wanted to be the main character of her own horror story, and she was jealous that Liv made friends without manipulating anybody. Jamal killed Tommy Jenkins, Avery Collins and the Hook Man, and his reason was that their father left his mother for the Elliot twins’ family.
Seven years from first announcement to last episode, two sets of showrunners, three networks worth of scheduling, and a mask license that arrived too late.
MTV started developing a Scream series in June 2012 and greenlit a pilot on April 25, 2013, with Wes Craven in talks to direct it. He passed. Jay Beattie and Dan Dworkin were hired to write in July 2013, and Jill Blotevogel came in as writer and showrunner in April 2014. Jamie Travis directed the pilot instead.
MTV ordered ten episodes straight to series on October 28, 2014. The mask was teased that November and shown on June 4, 2015. Season one shot in Louisiana from April to July 2015 and went out from June 30.
Wes Craven died on August 30, 2015, two days before the season one finale, which was dedicated to him. He kept an executive producer credit posthumously. He never wrote for the show and has been described as not really involved in it.
On November 9, 2015 MTV replaced showrunners Jill Blotevogel and Jaime Paglia with Michael Gans and Richard Register. Blotevogel stayed on as a consultant. Season two shot around New Orleans from February 16 to early July 2016 and ran twelve weeks from May 30, with a two hour Halloween special on October 18, a three part aftershow called Scream After Dark, and a short web series called Scream: If I Die.
MTV renewed for six more episodes in October 2016, then in spring 2017 threw the Lakewood story out entirely and rebooted the show as an anthology. The whole cast went. Brett Matthews came in as showrunner and Queen Latifah joined as an executive producer. Season three shot in Atlanta from September 18 to November 11, 2017.
Then it sat. Twenty months, unaired. The Harvey Weinstein scandal tangled the rights, since the Weinsteins and Dimension held them, and they went uncredited on the finished episodes. In June 2019, less than two weeks before it aired, Viacom announced the season would go out on VH1 instead, where it became that channel’s first scripted series in years. Six episodes across three consecutive nights, July 8 to 10, 2019. There was never a fourth season.
Two crew names tie the show to the films properly. Marianne Maddalena produced all four Scream films for Craven and Cathy Konrad produced the first three, and both were executive producers here. Patrick Lussier, who edited Scream, Scream 2 and Scream 3, directed the season two finale.
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What people actually watched, and what the reviews said.
SEASON ONE. The premiere drew 1.03 million live with a 0.45 rating in adults 18 to 49, and across repeats and three days of catch up MTV reported it reached about 6 million. The season sagged to about 550,000 before the finale rebounded to 0.76 million. The average was 754,000 with a 0.34 demo rating.
SEASON TWO. The premiere opened at a series low 0.40 million with a 0.22 demo rating, and the season ran between roughly 270,000 and 500,000, averaging 377,000 with a 0.19. Less than half the first season. The Halloween special took 0.34 million.
SEASON THREE. 0.79, 0.60, 0.40, 0.34, 0.38 and 0.33 million across the six, averaging about 474,000 with a 0.23. That is up about 26 percent on season two in viewers, on a channel with a smaller reach.
THE REVIEWS. Season one sits at 52 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from 43 reviews, with the consensus that it trades too heavily on nostalgia, and 57 out of 100 on Metacritic. Season two is the best reviewed of the three at 92 percent from 12 reviews, called wickedly sharp and a killer sophomore season. Season three sits at 40 percent from 5 reviews with a 31 percent audience score, and the negative reception is generally credited with ending the anthology plan.
One DVD. That is the whole physical history of this show.
Scream: The TV Series, The Complete First Season came out on DVD from Anchor Bay and Dimension TV on May 10, 2016 at 34.98 dollars. All ten episodes, a gag reel, deleted scenes and a promotional gallery. It took about 251,650 dollars in American disc sales.
That is it. There has never been a Blu-ray of any season. Season two, the Halloween special and the whole of season three have never been pressed on disc anywhere in the world. If you want them you are renting or buying them digitally.
THE MUSIC. Jeremy Zuckerman scored all three seasons. There are three releases. Scream: Music from Season One, a song compilation from Columbia Records on August 14, 2015. Music from MTV’s Scream Season 2, nine songs from Island Records on July 29, 2016. And Zuckerman’s actual score for seasons one and two, twenty two tracks including the main theme The Rules, from Lakeshore Records on October 28, 2016. Season three never got a soundtrack.
STREAMING. Netflix had it exclusively. Season one landed outside America on October 1, 2015 and in America on May 13, 2016. Season two rolled out weekly from May 31, 2016 abroad and arrived in America on September 30, 2016. When the Weinstein Company’s Netflix deal was terminated in July 2018 season three was stranded until a settlement with Lantern Entertainment in October 2018 let it on, on September 1, 2019. It left Netflix abroad on July 16, 2022 and in America on September 1, 2023, and because of the rights tangle it drifted for a while. Unlike the films, it is generally not on Paramount Plus. As things stand it is easy to find again: all three seasons, thirty episodes, are on Tubi for free with adverts.
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The two seasons that were written and thrown away.
The showrunners have talked about what season three was going to be before MTV scrapped Lakewood. Emma leaves for college and gets pulled back. Noah hallucinates the dead Zoe. Brooke and Audrey have an affair. Kieran runs murders from his cell in a Silence of the Lambs setup. And Brandon James comes back, not as the monster, but as a wrongly accused man protecting the people who need it.
THE THIRD KILLER. Season two ends with somebody in a Brandon James mask cutting Kieran’s throat in his cell, and the show never got to say who that was. Bex Taylor-Klaus, who played Audrey, has since said it out loud on camera: "Season 3 was supposed to have this really cool reveal that Brandon James was innocent the whole time, and it was really Emma’s dad that killed everyone. And he killed Kieran." Kevin Duval. The father. The clip went round in April 2026 and no big outlet picked it up, so treat it as what it is, a cast member remembering a plan from a decade earlier rather than a script anybody can hold up.
It does not fully square with what the showrunners have said. Asked the same question in March 2022, Michael Gans described a brand new character instead, "a really cool, very affluent party girl character who was going to come in and kind of give them all a run for their money, but also was going to be the best possible friend you could have," which he called a Tatum character but stronger. He also said they never got to pitch that version. Both accounts come from named people and they do not agree. What both agree on is that Brandon James was innocent.
The rest of that season, from Gans and Register: Emma tries to leave for college and gets pulled back. Noah starts seeing the dead Zoe and talking to her about the killings and about the nature of evil, and you are meant to wonder if he is losing his mind. Brooke and Audrey begin an affair, which sends Stavo spiralling and makes the three of them look like they might be working together. Suspicion builds that Emma herself has finally snapped. The spine is a Silence of the Lambs structure, with someone killing at Kieran’s bidding and Kieran only talking to Emma, face to face, in prison, while the bodies pile up. Brandon James is alive and watching, taken away years earlier because they were afraid he would be blamed for everything.
The finale would have ended in an abandoned farmhouse with Emma, Noah and an escaped Kieran. Noah dies. Emma kills Kieran. Then the camera pulls back and somebody shouts CUT, because it has all been a television set, and the actors hug and start talking about the wrap party. Then Amadeus Serafini, playing himself, is murdered for real in his dressing room.
Season four was going to pull all the way back and reveal the whole thing as a show within a show, with the cast playing themselves, stalked by a fan obsessed with Scream. MTV rejected it as a betrayal of the audience.
They pitched it to Bob Weinstein, who told them he thought they would be working together for many years. MTV’s drama head thought the meta turn would feel like a betrayal to an audience that had fallen in love with the characters. Gans put the real problem plainly: "They really wanted Pretty Little Liars, and we were like, well this is Scream, my friends."
Nobody has ever said the season three scripts were written. What exists is a story bible and a pitch. Both showrunners have said they would go back and do it if anybody asked.
Willa Fitzgerald found out in a coffee shop in New York in spring 2017, on a phone call, that the whole cast was being recast. She said she remembers being kind of devastated. Carlson Young said it was shocking, that they were told they had a third season and then it went quiet, and that what she would have wanted instead was an episode where everybody dies. "Why don’t you just kill everybody? It’s Scream."
Noah Foster was originally going to be the second killer of season one. He was spared because the character tested too well.
Dimension and MTV pushed the writers to change the killer’s identity part way through the first season. Jaime Paglia quit over the fights that followed and Jill Blotevogel was demoted to consultant.
The details that do not fit anywhere else.
Bella Thorne turned down a lead to play the opening kill instead, because she thought the smaller part was more iconic. It was her first death on screen.
Two parts were recast before shooting properly started. Amy Forsyth was replaced by Bex Taylor-Klaus as Audrey after the table read, and Joel Gretsch was replaced by Jason Wiles as Sheriff Hudson.
Amelia Rose Blaire only found out Piper was the killer at the end of shooting the sixth episode, and said it completely changed the emotional life of the performance. She modeled the character on the podcast Serial. Amadeus Serafini found out about Kieran at the table read for the season two finale.
Nearly every season two episode title is lifted from a horror film: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Psycho, Jeepers Creepers, Let the Right One In, Village of the Damned, The Orphanage, Heavenly Creatures and When a Stranger Calls.
Noah Foster is the show’s Randy Meeks, and in the pilot he argues that a slasher cannot work as a television series.
The killer’s voice in seasons one and two is Mike Vaughn, not Roger L. Jackson. Jackson only arrived in season three, with the real mask.
The whole main cast were in their twenties playing high schoolers, with one exception. Brianne Tju was seventeen when she played Riley.
Bex Taylor-Klaus came out as pansexual in 2016, which mirrored Audrey’s own arc. Audrey was one of very few openly queer leads in a network slasher at the time.
Kieran Wilcox has at least eleven kills across two seasons, which is the highest body count of any single killer in the Scream franchise.
Sosie Bacon, who plays Rachel Murray, is the daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.
The show never mentions Woodsboro or Sidney Prescott. It shares no continuity with the films at all.
The season three killer was physically played by William Scharpf, who also directed the fourth episode.
The people who matter across all three seasons.
Lakewood, seasons one and two
New for season two
Atlanta, season three
Everything ever made for this show. It is a short list. Weinstein and MTV licensed almost nothing, so what exists comes down to one DVD, two masks, two costumes and three albums, plus the things that were given away rather than sold and the pieces that came off the set.
A six disc set covering all three seasons and the Halloween special, produced in Malaysia. It is not licensed. Buyers say the subtitles do not match the audio. It is worth knowing about because it is the only physical set that covers seasons two and three at all.
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All ten episodes of the first season on three discs, region 1, 402 minutes, with a gag reel, deleted scenes and a promotional gallery. Some copies came with a cardboard slipcover. Catalog number WC64414. This is the only official disc release the show ever got anywhere in the world. There has never been a Blu-ray of it, and season two and season three were never pressed at all.
SEE ITThe first season to buy and keep on iTunes, Google Play, Vudu and Amazon.
SEE ITThe only legitimate way to own season two, since it was never put on disc.
SEE ITThe two hour Shallow Grove Island special sold on its own.
SEE ITThe VH1 season, Resurrection, to buy and keep.
SEE ITSeason one, season two, the Halloween special and season three in one bundle.
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THE SERIES
Development and casting
June 2012: MTV begins developing a Scream series. April 2013: pilot greenlit, with Wes Craven in discussions to direct. July 2013: Jay Beattie and Dan Dworkin join as pilot writers. April 2014: Jill Blotevogel confirmed as series writer; Jamie Travis set to direct the pilot. August 2014: main and recurring cast announced. Amy Forsyth dropped out and was replaced by Bex Taylor-Klaus as Audrey Jensen. December 2014: Bella Thorne confirmed as Nina Patterson. February 2015: Joel Gretsch was replaced by Jason Wiles as Sheriff Clark Hudson. April 2015: Amelia Rose Blaire confirmed as Piper Shaw. June 2015: Thorne revealed she had turned down the lead role, preferring the iconic victim part in order to die on screen for the first time. Season 3 casting: Tyga and C. J. Wallace (July 17, 2017); RJ Cyler, Jessica Sula, Keke Palmer, Giullian Yao Gioiello, Giorgia Whigham (September 13, 2017); Tyler Posey (September 25, 2017); Mary J. Blige (August 16, 2018); Tony Todd (October 12, 2018); Paris Jackson (June 24, 2019).
Filming
Season 1. Baton Rouge, Louisiana; April to July 2015. Season 2. New Orleans, Louisiana; February 16 to July 2016. Season 3. Atlanta, Georgia; September 18 to November 11, 2017.
The mask
MTV commissioned an entirely new mask for seasons 1 to 2. Executive producer Jaime Paglia told EW in 2015 they wanted "a new 'Ghost Face' mask for the show to let the audience know this isn't the same Scream as the movies," and MTV described it to THR as "a creative decision to take the TV show in a darker and more modern direction."
Showrunner Jill Blotevogel told Slate that a redesign was only worth doing if it carried meaning: "if we were going to try and improve on something that's really great, it has to really mean something for us." Her key distinction: in the 1996 film the mask is a store-bought Halloween item picked up casually, whereas in the series "the nature of the mask is very much intertwined with the mythology of this killer from the past."
The in-universe backstory: Brandon James has Proteus syndrome, was home-schooled through multiple reconstructive surgeries, and the mask is "something that he had to wear post-op to protect his face from exposure." Paglia said the design went through roughly 60 to 80 iterations and was revisited at the eleventh hour. The finished mask is asymmetrical (misshapen cheekbones, uneven eye sockets, a drooping brow) derived from photographs of Proteus syndrome patients, and is flexible, textured and slightly luminous. The killer wears a rain poncho rather than the film's black cloak. Paglia called it "a love letter, in some ways, to the horror genre," incorporating notes of Michael Myers and Jason.
There was also a rights dimension. Fun World owns and licenses the film Ghost Face mask; ScreenRant's explainer notes that MTV very likely did not have permission and publicly framed the change as creative. For season 3, MTV struck a deal with Fun World to acquire the licensing rights, and the classic Ghost Face mask, plus Roger L. Jackson's voice, returned.
Wes Craven was later critical of the network's decision to abandon the Ghost Face mask.
The season three reboot
October 2016: MTV renews for a six-episode third season with new showrunners. March/April 2017: MTV scraps the planned continuation and announces a soft reboot: entirely new cast, new setting (Atlanta), Brett Matthews as showrunner, and Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere and Yaneley Arty as executive producers through Flavor Unit Entertainment. July 2017: the series formally becomes an anthology. September 2017: Roger L. Jackson confirmed, replacing Mike Vaughn. March 2018: Harvey and Bob Weinstein were removed from the credits following the sexual-assault allegations, and The Weinstein Company logo was dropped. The season finished shooting in November 2017 but sat unaired for well over a year amid the studio's troubles, finally premiering on VH1 on July 8 to 10, 2019. Netflix's international rights to season 3 were terminated because of complications arising from the acquisition of TWC's assets.
Ratings
Season 1's per-episode US viewers are listed in the table above (premiere 1.03 million, finale 0.76 million). I was not able to extract Wikipedia's full ratings table reliably, the page's table cells do not survive text conversion and two separate extraction attempts returned mutually contradictory figures for seasons 2 and 3. Rather than publish numbers I cannot stand behind, I am leaving the season 2 and season 3 per-episode figures out. What is solidly established: viewership declined steadily across season 1, season 2 ran well below season 1, and the move to VH1 for season 3 produced the lowest numbers of the run.
Reception
Season 1. Rotten Tomatoes 52% from 42 reviews, average 5.45/10. Consensus: "Lacking truly compelling characters or scenarios, Scream is formed to trade too heavily on nostalgia for its big-screen predecessors in the franchise." Metacritic 57/100 from 21 critics ("mixed or average"). Season 2. Rotten Tomatoes 92% from 12 critics. Consensus: "Undeniably gripping and wickedly sharp, Scream returns with a killer sophomore season that manages to go further into its murderous ethos." Season 3. Rotten Tomatoes 40% from 5 critics. Notable reviews: David Hinckley (New York Daily News) gave four of five stars, praising "snappy, self-aware pop culture dialogue"; Brian Lowry (Variety) commended the suspense; David Wiegand (San Francisco Chronicle) gave one of four stars, calling the acting "bland, robotic, and uninteresting" and criticising the lack of racial diversity; Mark Perigard (Boston Herald) gave a C+, warning the series "risks putting viewers to sleep."
Home media
Season 1 DVD released May 10, 2016 by Anchor Bay Entertainment; $251,650 in home sales. Seasons 2 and 3 never received disc releases. Netflix: internationally October 1, 2015 (season 1); US May 13, 2016 (S1), September 30, 2016 (S2), September 1, 2019 (S3). "Scream: If I Die". Six webisodes released May 23, 2016 on MTV's YouTube channel, showing the Lakewood Six recording final thoughts for Noah's podcast between seasons 1 and 2. "Scream After Dark!". Three 22-minute aftershow specials (May 30, July 19 and August 16, 2016).
Future series
Nothing is confirmed. Wikipedia's Scream franchise article records no television series in development after 2019, and I found no announcement from Deadline, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter or any comparable trade of a new Scream TV series. The franchise's post-2019 activity is entirely theatrical: Scream (2022), Scream VI (2023), Scream 7 (released February 27, 2026, directed and co-written by Kevin Williamson, with Neve Campbell returning as Sidney Prescott alongside Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown, reported as the franchise's highest-grossing entry), and an eighth film announced in early development by Paramount and Spyglass on March 31, 2026 with Lilla and Nora Zuckerman writing.
Trivia
- Bella Thorne turned down a lead role to play Nina Patterson, because she wanted to die on screen for the first time.
- Nina's pre-titles death is the series' direct analogue of Drew Barrymore's Casey Becker opening in the 1996 film.
- Amy Forsyth was originally cast as Audrey Jensen and dropped out; Bex Taylor-Klaus replaced her in August 2014.
- Joel Gretsch was originally cast as Sheriff Clark Hudson; Jason Wiles replaced him in February 2015.
- Wes Craven was in discussions to direct the pilot in April 2013; Jamie Travis directed it instead.
- Craven died on August 30, 2015, during season 1's original run; the season finale, aired two days later, was dedicated to him.
- Craven lent his name and took an executive producer credit but had no creative involvement, and was posthumously credited on seasons 2 and 3.
- Ti West directed season 1's "The Dance."
- Leigh Janiak directed two episodes (1x07 and 2x09) before making the Fear Street trilogy.
- Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer directed 2x10 and both the opener and finale of season 3, in the same period they made Pet Sematary (2019).
- Patrick Lussier, who edited the original Scream films for Wes Craven, directed the season 2 finale.
- Gil Kenan (Monster House, Poltergeist) directed "Village of the Damned."
- Season 2 changed slot mid-run: episodes 1 to 4 aired Mondays at 11 p.m., and from episode 5 on June 28, 2016 it moved to Tuesdays at 10 p.m.
- Roger L. Jackson's arrival in season 3 marked the first time the films' actual Ghost Face voice was heard in the series; Mike Vaughn had voiced the killer for two seasons.
- The season 1 to 2 mask went through roughly 60 to 80 design iterations.
- Its asymmetry was modelled on photographs of people with Proteus syndrome, the condition written for Brandon James.
- The TV killer wore a rain poncho rather than the films' flowing black cloak.
- MTV had to strike a licensing deal with Fun World to use the real Ghost Face mask, which is why it only appears from season 3.
- Harvey and Bob Weinstein were stripped from the credits in March 2018 and the TWC logo was removed from the show.
- Season 3 wrapped filming in November 2017 but did not air until July 2019: a gap of some twenty months.
- Season 3 moved networks entirely, from MTV to VH1, and aired as a three-night, two-episodes-a-night event.
- Queen Latifah executive produced season 3 through Flavor Unit Entertainment.
- Tony Todd, the original Candyman, plays the Hook Man in season 3; Paris Jackson appears in the season's opening cameo as Becky.
- Only season 1 was ever released on disc; its DVD grossed $251,650.
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The typeface on the title card and in the opening credits of the 1996 film. Just van Rossum drew it for FontFont in 1992 to look like something off a fax machine. Paid, about $59.99. Most people get this wrong, because the poster logo and the on screen title in the first film are not the same typeface.
MyFontsThe silver SCREAM wordmark is Futura Extra Bold with the middle of the M pulled down into a spike below the baseline. Paul Renner drew Futura for Bauer in 1927. Nobody sells the spiked M, so no off the shelf Futura matches it exactly.
Adobe Fonts MyFontsA free replica of the logo with the spiked M already built in, in regular, outline and alternate weights. Free for personal use. The quickest way to make something that looks right.
DaFont Famous Fonts, direct zip Preview itA different take on the same logo by Norfok Incredible Font Design. Free for personal use, commercial use needs a word with the designer. TrueType and PostScript, 47 characters.
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