Wes Craven News

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Wes Craven took to Twitter to address the Scream television series in the works at MTV.

MTV is turning Scream , Wes Craven's 16-year-old slasher film franchise, into a TV series for the Millennial Generation, the network revealed this week during its star-studded upfront presentation to announce new programming to advertisers.

On Friday, April 26 MTV broke the news that the " Scream " movie franchise is being developed into a television show.

Straying further from it's name of 'Music Television,' MTV announces that it will create a television series based on the 'Scream' movie franchise, with film director Wes Craven in talks to direct the TV version.

Get ready to "Scream" again. MTV has ordered a one-hour pilot based on the Wes Craven series of horror films aimed at reinventing the smash films that introduced the world to maniacal killer Ghostface.

In this publicity image released by The Weinstein Company, Courteney Cox is shown in a scene from the horror film "Scream 4." The MTV network says it will produce a pilot for a TV-series adaptation of the wildly popular slasher films.

The TV network alongside Dimension Film are set to make an hour-long pilot for the show which it is hoping to run as a full series in 2014.

Network executives have ordered a one-hour pilot episode based on the movies, and they're hoping to persuade Wes Craven to sit in the director's chair.

MTV has set its sights on turning the popular "Scream" horror film franchise into a television series, the U.S. cable network said on Thursday.

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