In anticipation of the upcoming Scream installment, Paramount has now released a new featurette detailing how Ghostface‘s iconic mask came to be.
Viewable above, the minute-long clip features the original film’s writer Kevin Williamson explaining how the production team first came across the mask and why they decided to adopt it into the movie.
“No one could agree on a mask and I remember we were in a location scout, and we found Ghostface,” recalls Williamson. “It was in a box of stuff in a garage that we were location scouting in, and we asked the owner if we could take it because Wes [Craven] immediately looked at it and said, ‘This is like the famous Scream painting.’ And so we took that to our production and we said, ‘Riff on this and see if you can make something like this.’ They must’ve done 20 different designs.”
The studio ended up rejecting all 20 of them, and ultimately the team decided to just buy the rights to Ghostface. “Finally, we said ‘Why don’t we just get the rights to this mask?’ Because at the end of the script it did say it was a dime-store Halloween mask, and so that’s exactly what we found.”
For fans of the franchise, Scream will hit theaters on January 14, 2022.
In other related news, here’s the first trailer for the new Scream movie.
