Scream - First Look At The New Mask *Updated*

Update: 14th June Here is an HQ version of the mask.

HQ Version

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Update 1:
Thanks to richard dower for the heads up.

One way that MTV’s “Scream” will assert its independence, Blotevogel continued, is by making the mask part of the killer’s mystery, instead of “a $1.99 costume the killer grabs in a costume shop and threw on just to be anonymous, or to scare people.”

“TV has to expand upon the 90 minutes of a movie,” she explained. “We’ve got to find a bigger mystery so that we have things to dig in to. Our mask had to have more meaning than just a scary disguise that the killer puts on… I always compare it to how the Cylons had to be updated for ’Battlestar Galactica. You’ve got to be able to take some creative license to create a bigger mystery because as it says in the pilot, you can’t do a slasher movie as a TV series… unless you make it more, unless you start to care about the characters, unless you have a bigger mystery behind what’s going on, and that’s what we needed to do to the mask.”

“That mask humanizes him and demonizes him at the same time,” she said. “We get to learn why he was wearing it, and that it was a part of trying to fix what actually made him a monster, but the actually fact of wearing it makes him look like a monster — so it’s interesting how it bridges that idea.”

Source:

MTV

Original Post:

While the film franchise featured a killer wearing a now-iconic Ghostface mask, producers for the small-screen version decided to go for a fresh new look to alert viewers that this is not the same old Scream. “The [original] mask is so iconic. If you were to have that mask in a television series, but you weren’t following any of the characters [from the original], I believe that would be misleading the audience,” says exec producer Jaime Paglia (Eureka).

But the mask does play with the franchise’s love of horror classics. Explains exec producer Jill Blotevogel (Harper’s Island): “It evokes some of the Jason hockey mask and the white Michael Myers mask, but it’s still first and foremost evocative of the Scream mask. It’s sort of a reinvention while also paying homage.”

Most importantly, it passes muster with original director Wes Craven, now an executive producer on the series. Says Craven, “The new mask is cool and scary and takes the series into a new direction. It also ties into the story, which I won’t give away.” Now we just want to know who’s underneath.

Source:

Entertainment Weekly