Filmmakers Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin reveal the stories behind the movie’s references, cameos, and in-jokes.
Warning: This article contains spoilers forScream VI.
“I love them,” Bettinelli-Olpin says of peppering in the references.
‘Scream VI’.Philippe Bossé/Paramount Pictures
“I’m always like, ‘If you get them, they’re fun.
And if you don’t, it just doesn’t matter.'”
“It’s a way to make a movie more yours,” adds Gillett.
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“You feel more connected to it.
Our goal is: How far can we take a joke?
And there never was.
‘Ready Or Not’.Eric Zachanowich/Fox Searchlight
We just never got it in.
We were like, ‘Oh, done!’
The second we saw it, we were like, ‘Let’s put that in Jason’s apartment.’
‘I Think You Should Leave’.Netflix
Less obvious is the scene’s sartorial shout-out togiallo director Dario Argento.
“It’s his favorite movie,” Gillett says of Carvey.
“He just bought the shirt.
Wes Craven.Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic
He bought the shirt the day before he got murdered!”
“Avery [Plewes,Scream VIcostume designer] designed theReady or Notdress,” says Bettinelli-Olpin.
“We thought it would be really fun to have her design a costume of her own design.”
Kate Lyn Sheil in ‘V/H/S’.Everett Collection
“A meta within a meta within a meta,” says Gillett.
“Samara was on set when we were shooting that,” says Bettinelli-Olpin.
“That was her first day visiting set.
Jenna Ortega on ‘Wednesday’.Netflix
There were some very funny moments of seeing the cosplayer and real Samara right next to each other.
A little brain-buster.”
The subway sequence also includes brief cameos from the two directors.
Gillett tongue-in-cheekedly describes their appearance as “the scariest shot in the movie.
I, unfortunately, am more heavily-featured than Matt.
TheScream VIfilmmakers connected with Robinson via their pal,Popstar: Never Stop Never Stoppingdirector Akiva Schaffer.
We’d even been dream casting it for a bit.
He just came down to the Paramount lot and did those lines in like, half an hour.
They made the scene for us.”
“It was hard to not use all of the stuff he gave us,” says Gillett.
Tim gave us so many wonderful, hilarious lines.”
What’s the connection?
So we did a little tweak on it and made it the bodega name.
But that came from Spencer of Ice Nine Kills."
“Those are more just nods and winks to our friends,” says Gillett.
“But we think it’s all the more hilarious because of that.”
Scream VIis now available to buy on Digital and is streaming on Paramount+.
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