The choice to do away with the now iconic GhostFace mask for something fleshier has proved a controversial one for Scream The TV Series. Clearly tied to some story element, many simply already miss the white visage, while others are worried itll be a device to explain away the killer. Scream director Wes Craven has weighed in, citing the change as just fixing what isnt broken.
THR investigated Scream The TV Series mask conceptwhich will likely be revealed as a good or bad idea based on how good or bad the show itself isand reached out to Craven for comment. Craven, who of course directed all four Scream films, as well as Nightmare on Elm Street, compared his thoughts on the mask and his refusal to ever change it to 1994s Wes Cravens New Nightmare: In general, we didn’t mess with the mask at all. It’s something we didn’t try to change. With Freddy [Krueger] and the New Nightmare (below right), I felt that I probably should have stuck with the original face. [With Scream,] we just let Ghostface be Ghostface.”
Craven adds, “It would have been safer [not to change Freddy]. I’m not going to speculate in public, probably shouldn’t have even mentioned it, but you know, sometimes you realize that something’s not broken, so don’t fix it. And that was the course we took on all the Scream films: Don’t mess with that, it’s just perfect.”
Whats funny is that Freddys augmented face in New Nightmare was a fine choice based on the distinct mythology of Freddy as an entity removed slightly from the films. Thats not to mention Freddy looked slightly different in pretty much every Elm Street entry.
Will Screams decision be the right one in? Producer Bob Weinstein thinks so, referencing the aforementioned story aspect of it. Well see on June 30th, when the series premieres on MTV.
