Spyglass Media Group cut ties with Melissa Barrera in late November 2023 after she came out in support of Palestine in a now-deleted Instagram post, saying Israel’s forceful response to Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, was genocide and ethnic cleansing. Spyglass Media issued a statement, via Variety, after Barrera was fired from the series, which said in part, “We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech.”
A day later, Barrera broke her silence over her “Scream 7” firing with a social media post, saying, “At the end of the day, I’d rather be excluded for who I include than be included for who I exclude.”
Responding to “Scream 7″‘s controversial Barrera firing in November, director Christopher Landon pleaded with fans in a now-deleted post on X, formerly known as Twitter, to stop yelling at him about the termination and clarified that he had nothing to with the action. A month later, Landon posted on X that he’d moved on from the film: “I guess now is as good a time as any to announce I formally exited Scream 7 weeks ago. This will disappoint some and delight others. It was a dream job that turned into a nightmare. And my heart did break for everyone involved. Everyone. But it’s time to move on.”
