Fox’s Scream Queens recently confirmed that a scene from the series was leaked on YouTube showcasing the fate of popstar Ariana Grande’s character on the show.
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“They’re very tonally different …”
Of all of the Scream Queens characters known at this time, Emma Roberts’ Chanel Oberlin is probably the most well-known and that is thanks in no small part to Ms. Roberts acting talents and hard work, but Scream Queens creator Ryan Murphy reveals that Emma’s character has real life inspiration.
Murphy says that he doesn’t get a lot of pushback from the Fox standards and practices department in regards to Scream Queens’ violent content. “It’s the language of these girls and their empowering sense of sexuality” where Murphy faces the most hurdles during production.
The new anthology series “Scream Queens” revolves around a college campus which is rocked by a series of murders and is set in a sorority house.
When the writers were asked about the harsh and sometimes offensive comments made by sorority leader Chanel (Emma Roberts), Jamie Lee Curtis, the iconic Halloween star who plays a college dean who forces the exclusive sorority to open its doors to all, pointed to the show’s satirical focus. The importance of female friendship will also apparently be central to Scream Queens: “The young women in this show are much more interested in friendships with each other than the boys [are]”. “Plus, the show is a good ol” fashioned whodunnit; not even the actors know what’s going to happen or whether their characters will survive. Nash says that during breaks in shooting, the actors meet and try to figure out who the killer is.
“It’s similar to American Horror Story in that it’s anthological but different in that at the end of the first season there will only be four characters out of 25 left”, he revealed.
“That raises the stakes and the suspense, and yes, they send muffin baskets”, said Murphy of the cast. They love each other.
During the panel, Murphy credited a show that’s near and dear to our heart as being the reason behind the horror on TV surge. “Our is more a comedy and satirical”.
“Scream Queens” will debut on Fox with a two-hour premiere on Tuesday 22nd September at 8pm.
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“I think this genre has really exploded in the years since “The Walking Dead” came on”, he said. That show is really a reinvention every season and we wanted to stay true to that. “And the thing that’s so brilliant about this show is it strips away, it flays the imagined behaviors of human beings, and it actually shows, I think, what people really are, which is inherently dark, inherently unhappy”.
