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You know as they say with films with many parts that the first one is usually the best - well this is how I feel about Scream the first one is good had me guessing all the way through the film and the 2nd part was not too bad but I couldn't see where they would get enough ideas for a 4th part :(
Scream creator Kevin Williamson has been forced to re-write his screenplay for a fourth Scream movie, after the franchise's star Neve Campbell refused to reprise her role.
Director Wes Craven recently revealed Courteney Cox and her husband David Arquette were returning for a fourth instalment of the movie series, to shoot a screenplay written by Williamson.
The filmmakers hoped Campbell would reprise her role as Sidney Prescott for a fourth time - but the actress has turned down the offer.
Now Williamson has to go back to the drawing board.
He tells NYPost.com's PopWrap blog, "I've had numerous conversations with Neve. She's a friend. Nicest girl on the planet. It just ain't workin' out and it sucks for me. It was no cameo. I'd never play Sid out that way. And I ain't got no Sid-less scenario. So, I don't know yet what to do."
I wonder why she is not starring in this ? Shouldn't that be a sign?
Dimension Films has confirmed that Scream 4 will go under the camera this spring, with Wes Craven back in the director’s chair.
The new film, which reunites Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox Arquette against a new slasher-movie-loving psycho, has been given a release date of 12 April, 2011.
Which means it’ll be hitting cinemas almost bang on 11 years after the series shrieked its last with Scream 3 in February 2000, which supposedly rounded out the Scream Trilogy.
Writer Kevin Williamson (who scribbled the first two, and exec produced the third) has been secretly squirreling away at the script, which he has proposed as a brand new trilogy, with treatments for Screams 5 and 6 also filed in a drawer marked ‘open and die’ (probably).
Wes Craven, who was holding out on signing onto the fourquel until he read the script, evidently is happy with what Williamson has dreamed up to resurrect the franchise.
In a confirmation of what we already knew, Dimension revealed that their 2011 slate is playing it safe by continuing its roster of successful franchises – Scream being their figurehead for dead cert hits. God bless the recession.
"Scream has been such an integral part of Dimension's history, and I look forward to continuing the franchise."
As well as reuniting the original triumvirate of Scream survivors, this new flick will introduce a cast of new, younger characters. Expect a few faces from Williamson’s CW show The Vampire Diaries to make an appearance, then.
With Scream 4 set to start filming this July, returning director Wes Craven and Dimension Studios are looking for the fresh-faced teens who will become Ghostface fodder in the belated sequel.
Who’ve they got in mind? Well, Twilight’s Ashley Greene, Heroes’ Hayden Panettiere, It’s Complicated’s Lake Bell and Mean Creek’s Rory Culkin have all been approached.
If they accept the roles, Greene (below) would play Courteney Cox’s cousin Jill (great likeness if you ask us) and Culkin would be her squeeze.
Meanwhile, Panettiere would take on the Randy role as a geeky film nerd (giving her a break from the cheerleading outfits), and Bell would play a police officer who knew Neve Campbell’s Sidney at high school.
“It’s very much about the last 10 years, and where we are right now,” Wes Craven revealed recently.
“‘New decade, new rules’ is very much the keynote of the film, that is, trying to figure out what sort of rules [the new Ghostface] is following. How do we fight this killer without a road map? We have to figure out where we are.”
Scream 4 is set for release on 15 April 2011.
Adam Brody is the latest addition to the cast of Scream 4, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The former OC actor will play a cop and recent college graduate who is a big fan of crime procedural show CSI.
Marley Shelton (Sin City) has also joined, replacing Lake Bell as the deputy sheriff who knew Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott in high school. Erik Knudsen is on board as a comic relief character familiar with the formula of horror movies.
Sources for Ghouls On Film, meanwhile, are reporting that Lauren Graham has been forced to leave the movie due to "date conflict and script changes".
Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere and Rory Culkin are among the cast of newcomers joining returning franchise stars Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox.
The identity of the masked killer in the Scream movies has been accidentally revealed on a late-night US TV show.
Director Wes Craven has purposefully kept the face behind 'Ghostface' a secret and refuses to let his cast know what the killer looks like - because it has helped him make the fear appear more real on screen.
However, during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday, Craven's secret was revealed when the host flashed a photo of the previously unidentified actor, Roger Jackson.
Craven says, " We sneak him into the set before the actors arrive. We put him upstairs some place, in an obscure room and put a guard out front... No actor, until now, has ever seen him."
WENN