Unmasking BJ Novak and Chef Tim Hollingsworth’s latest nostalgia-fueled pop-up dinner.
You ’re swot in the back bum of a Ford Taurus with three friends , squish up against the windowpane on a chilly winter eventide . The car crawls through traffic and “ No Diggity ” play softly on the receiving set . The machine column inch ahead until you reach a windowpane , and someone give over a bag — you have made it to the end of the drive - thru — and it ’s full of burgers and fries . It is 1996 and life is good ; you ’re on your room to seeScream .
Those were the good old twenty-four hour period , back when thing were simpler , light , good . But those years do n’t have to be gone forever — Scream VIcomes out in a twain weeks , and the wild pop - up dinner party seriesChainhas partner withParamount PicturesandSpyglass Media Groupto contribute a beloved meal from the past tense into the present tense , just like the iconic slasher flick series . In the run up to the movie ’s release , Chain is recreating and reimagining the authoritative McDonald ’s Happy Meal as aScream - themed Stabby Meal , with a Bone Marrow ChainBurger , Throwback Fries , and Woodsboro Orchards Apple Pie .
Chain is the inspiration of Chef Tim Hollingsworth , actor / author BJ Novak , and a host of other cool kids , a labor that started as a bit of pandemic giddiness and evolved intoWest Hollywood ’s hot dinner party company , with a guest inclination that has included Chrissy Teigen , Mindy Kaling , Finneas , John Mayer , Kiernan Shipka , and more . For every soda - up , the Chain gang picks an iconic dish from a chain restaurant then chop shot and screws it into something raw , elevating bang like Taco Bell ’s Crunchwrap , BJ ’s Pizookie , Chili ’s Southwestern Egg Rolls , and Outback Steakhouse ’s Bloomin ’ Allium cepa . They recreate them with high - caliber ingredient , exact technique , and a chef ’s touch , bringing your puerility favorites back to life in exciting , mod slipway .
Photo by Justin Slade McClain, courtesy of Chain
Hollywood be intimate a nostalgia play , and any rational holding with the slightest glimmer of residuary fond regard gets a coarse-grained reboot , so it was only born that the industriousness would issue forth calling for Chain ’s specific trade name of updated old - school chain food .
Scream VIhits broad release on March 10 , and Chain ’s sea wolf combo will debut at the Chain house in West Hollywood on February 24th . The Extremely Medium Sized Bone Marrow ChainBurger comes as a half - pound bone marrow beef patty topped with American cheese , pickles , onions , ketchup , leaf mustard , and Chain ’s umami seasoning blend all on a poppy come roll . The Throwback Fries are wide-eyed , classic fries done right . And then Woodsboro Orchards Warm Apple Pie is , of course , a take on McDonald ’s Baked Apple Pie , a manus - held piston chamber of hot apples and Cinnamomum zeylanicum .
And it would n’t be a Happy Meal without a toy — in this grammatical case , one of four collectable pins , feature a bloody buck knife , a subway car , and two of the actresses who star in the movie , Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera . The promo video is set to drop later today , featuring Roger L. Jackson , who voiced the original Ghostface in the 1996Scream .
Photo by Justin Slade McClain, courtesy of Chain
To get on the list is the same procedure as a distinctive strand drop — if you sign up up through theirInstagram , you ’ll get a text qui vive when reservation give up , and you ’ll be able to follow program line to register to attend one of the pop - ups .
Then head to the theater , walk through the psychedelic chain - eating house inside and pick up your food . Take a insect bite of that stocky and juicy bone marrow ChainBurger , and think back to the ’ XC again — maybe some thing are better today , after all .
Photo by Justin Slade McClain, courtesy of Chain
