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Sequel? Try Trilogy / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | June 8, 2009 | Comments (20)

Here’s the deal: Last week, it was learned that both David and Courtney Arquette had been approached about returning to their roles in the Scream franchise. Word was that it was to be a reboot, but thanks to Twitter (and Slashfilm), more details have come out from Wes Craven and the Scream scripter, Kevin Williamson. The details are this:

It’s not going to be a remake or a reboot. It’s a sequel. And not just one sequel, but the kicker to a trilogy of sequels. Scream 4, 5, and 6.

And why not? They pretty much tanked the franchise with Scream 3 (sorry, Scott Foley). It’s not like they can ruin it much further. Word is that the Weinsteins have approached Craven about directing the sequels; he’s amenable, though he hasn’t seen a script yet (it’s due in August). And while the Arquettes will likely be reprising their roles, no one else would (including Neve Campbell). Unless, of course, it’s all a ruse, and — in the end — it will be revealed that Sidney Prescott was the killer all along.

So, there you go: Three more Scream films. That can’t be worse than three more Saw films, though just as inevitable.


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Comments

*Le sigh*

Posted by: alphawhiskey at June 8, 2009 7:54 PM

*facepalm*

Posted by: lizzieborden at June 8, 2009 7:55 PM

No. No. No. No. NO!!!

Scream was a horror classic, and the universe has gone out of its way to ruin everything about it. With the sequels, Scary Movie, and the Scary Movie sequels, Scream has become a joke. But not an ordinary joke, it's a joke with as much humor as a "Jews in an ashtray" joke told by your asshole boss while you're taking a diharettic shit. That's how bad it's gotten.

Posted by: George at June 8, 2009 7:58 PM

Oh my god, I can't believe I wrote that.

Posted by: George at June 8, 2009 7:59 PM

man Kevin Williamson must be really desperate, must feel like a real scorn to be wept by the other °self obsessed teenagers going into adulthood° show creator. dude if you only had tough of recycling alternative dimensions maybe u would be the one doing keyboard solos at the MTV Movie Awards!
and by the way, scream 3 was so bad I shit my pants , no, really, I actually did. thank you for ruining Parker Posey and Heater Matarazzo in just one movie. that takas talent. and I'm all about the Sidney Prescott serial killer idea. I was just thinking today, watching Murder She Wrote" reruns, how awesome would have been having the series finale about how the super psycho Jessica Fletcher commicted every single murder in the show or was herself Death.

Posted by: rio at June 8, 2009 8:14 PM

Oh my.

I loved Scream.

I sat through its sequels. I'll probably go see these too, if only for some of the music within the films.

Posted by: Kate at June 8, 2009 8:25 PM

Couldn't. Care. Less.

"Scream" sucked.

Yeah, I said it.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at June 8, 2009 8:36 PM

Man. How shitty is your project when even Neve Campbell takes a pass? That "Party of Five" money has to be running out.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at June 8, 2009 8:45 PM

I'm so apathetic that I don't even care about my lack of interest.

How about a Seriously Random List of the best fourth installments to franchises (followed perhaps by a list of the best fourth albums by boy-bands)? I'll care just as little about that when it's posted by the poor sucker who has to pen it...

Posted by: Che Grovera at June 8, 2009 8:56 PM

This is such a dumb, tedious idea. If someone mentions rebooting I Know What You Did... ('I'm Definitely Beginning To Get A Pretty Good Idea What You Did So Many Summers Ago'), I'll scream. Pun NOT intended.

Posted by: Caspar at June 8, 2009 9:20 PM

And once again Hollywood wants to capitalize on the completely unwanted and unnecessary. Blech.

Posted by: figgy at June 8, 2009 10:10 PM

When I went to see I Know What You Did Last Summer, I went to see it with my mom---she thought it was a goofy movie. This actually happened in the theater:
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR: Where are you?
SMG'S SISTER: (gets dragged across a hallway while hanging from a hook)
MY MOM: Oh, just hanging around.
AUDIENCE: (laughs)

When my mom is making the audience react more than the movie is, that's when the genre is dead.

Call me non-enthusiastic about this news.

Posted by: Jim Doggie at June 8, 2009 10:58 PM

The soundtrack to the first Scream movie was pretty decent...It had Nick Cave!

Posted by: popejenn at June 9, 2009 12:53 AM

Neve can't take the job because she's just SO busy doing...doing...uhmmm, let's see. Yes, she'll be busy playing "desperate games to discover [who has] taken £2 million, the booty from the sale of an accidentally discovered coke mountain - the only escape from their dismal lives." Yes, coke mountain vs. ghostface was a horrible choice for her to make. Poor Neve.

Posted by: Sharopa at June 9, 2009 1:50 AM

Scream was a horror classic

I loved Scream.

SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR: Where are you?
SMG'S SISTER: (gets dragged across a hallway while hanging from a hook)
MY MOM: Oh, just hanging around.
AUDIENCE: (laughs)

I don't even care about the movie...fuck the movie...I found these comments more interesting.

One, you have got to be kidding me. Yes, you did correct yourself.

Two, something is wrong with you, no really, go see someone.

Three, I remember seeing Wishmaster in theatres...when the dead dog/creature thing went chasing after them I started barking in the theatre...people actually thought it was part of the movie.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at June 9, 2009 2:50 AM

Why make a sequel to a trilogy where only one of the movies is any damn good? What are they going to do next, have Neve Cambell go to a nursing home and be terrorized in between games of Shuffleboard? Honestly, every possible plotline has been pretty much covered, I can't think what else new there will be.
And judging by today's horror seeking crowd, it'll be played less for laughs, more for screams. The first was an ingenious dark satire with plenty of laughter and screams to last you a few weeks.
Honestly, Scream should have ended after the first one, nuff said.

Posted by: Kamikaze Feminist at June 9, 2009 6:33 AM

Whoa, is this post really not about Ghostface Killah?

Posted by: SaBrina at June 9, 2009 7:46 AM

This is going to be BAD.
And I love Scream

Posted by: mario at June 9, 2009 1:35 PM

Seriously, where is Ghostface?

Hey, I had a thought...since Scream began mimicking itself with it's horrible in-movie movies ("Stab 1, 2, & 3"), I was thinking, for Scream sequels, they should, for whatever reason, delve into the world of music being featured in the movie production, y'know?

In the final act of whatever sequel you wanna put this in, the killer tries to kill Ghostface Killah, who is recording a track for "Stab 5" or what have you, you following? But the killer wrecks himself, as he didn't check himself, and Ghostface ends up blasting the mutha.

His words, i.e., movie quote?

"And that's why I'm called the Ghostface Killah, biatch!"

Hollywood, you have my number. The first taste is for free.

Posted by: Riley at June 9, 2009 5:47 PM

Ugh. (Not you, Riley.)

Posted by: Nadha at June 10, 2009 3:13 PM