No, the series will not being using the Ghost Face mask for now. In an effort to create a “wholly unique experience” the show’s creators are giving us a mask that’s another spin on the classic Edvard Munch painting. Words like “organic” and “made of flesh” are bandied about in the report, but as MTV’s senior vice president and head of scripted development Mina Lefevre says: ?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.?
She later told the outlet that the feel of the Scream film series is very much present in the television show, which debuts October 2015.
Here’s the thing: Are they over-developing this “new” mask? As we all know, many of horror’s most iconic masks were merely lucky discoveries. Something simply “clicked” in the finding of the mask and the director’s vision. Simple as that. And all too often we’ve seen blatant attempts at creating the next horror icon “look” that have stumbled simply because the creators were over-thinking things.
After reading Lefevre’s comments, I have no clue what to expect. But I don’t know if I need to know how “that mask became that mask.”
To wrap up, a bit of the show’s description, per EW:
The high school-set series will follow a slew of not-yet-slain students: shy popular girl Emma (Willa Fitzgerald), artsy loner Audrey (Bex Taylor-Klaus), computer geek Noah (John Karna), all-American athlete Will (Connor Weil), ferocious socialite Brooke (Carlson Young), and mysterious new kid Kieran (Amadeus Serafini). The show also stars Joel Gretsch as Sheriff Clark Hudson (Kieran?s father) and Tracy Middendorf as Maggie.
