In a recent interview, Wes Craven tells us all about his upcoming Scream movie, which begins shooting in June:
“There have been 10 years of no Ghostface, but there has been the movie-within-a-movie Stab. We have fun with the idea of endless sequels, or “sequelitis” as Kevin calls it in the script. Sid (Neve Campbell) goes through these three horrendous things, and Stab was based on those horrible things. And then they’ve been taken by a studio and run into the ground in a series of sequels.”
“…Part of the humor of Scream 4 is when characters comment on that. “Enough of Saw 25 and all!” [Laughs] A lot of films, directors, and studios are the butts of some of the jokes. In order to figure out what’s happening around them, the characters have to figure out where the genre of horror is. So this is a look at horror after 10 years of a lot of sequels rather than original films coming up year after year. One film is successful, and then they make 25 of them. I think it’s time for something new. I’ve done remakes of my own films, too, with The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes, but we feel it’s time for something new and different, and that’s what this film is going to be.”
“I’m fascinated by what this movie is. I can’t think of another film that has not only a true trilogy, where you’re following a single central character over three pictures, but has the complexity to the story and other characters that also have continued along. And then 10 years later, to come back to those same characters and same actors, and continue that story in a way that’s totally organic. It’s kind of unprecedented.”
That’s neat, Wes Craven. But you lost me at “SCRE4M”. N0 T4@nks, h0m3y.
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I can’t think of another film that has not only a true trilogy, where you’re following a single central character over three pictures, but has the complexity to the story and other characters that also have continued along. And then 10 years later, to come back to those same characters and same actors, and continue that story in a way that’s totally organic. It’s kind of unprecedented.”
Alien did it, and it sucked. Fuck you, Craven.
There have been 10 years of no Ghostface…
Dennis Coles would like to inform you that you are incorrect, sir. And, as a side note, he ain’t nothing to fuck wit.
Aaron Seltzer: “J-Berg, you’re not going to believe this… another Scream Movie!”
Jason Friedberg: “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?!?!”
Together: “A SAFE FALLS ON PARIS HILTON’S HEAD!!!”
Fuck you, Burnsy.
Maybe now Neve Campbell’s breasts can stop pulling double shifts at the IHOP.
Can’t wait for “5CREAM: OMGWTFBBQ”
“The Last House on the Left” had the best rape scene everrrrr.
Wes Craven has his head up his 455.
The massive success of the leads careers mean they may not come back. Oh wait..
Neve Campbell – WTF is she doing?
Skeet Ulrich – TV Series Cancelled (nuts)
Matthew Lillard – WTF is he doing?
Jamie Kennedy – He’s (was) doing Jennifer Love Chewitt and is still on Ghost Whisperer
Courtney Cox – ABC series that no one talks about and is most likely cancelled
David Arquette – WTF is he doing again?
Shoot for the stars Wes.
Yeh, nothing says originality more than a 3rd sequal to a movie tha twasn’t great to begin with.
“I can’t think of another film that has not only a true trilogy, where you’re following a single central character over three pictures, but has the complexity to the story and other characters that also have continued along. And then 10 years later, to come back to those same characters and same actors, and continue that story in a way that’s totally organic. It’s kind of unprecedented.”
So we can assume the killer will use a whip and hide in a refrigerator to avoid an atomic blast? Because the last time a trilogy did a sequel with original actors it was so well received, and didn’t kill a franchise at all.
I think we’re being Crystal Skull-fucked.
New Decade. New Rules. Same Old Shit.
“…Part of the humor of Scream 4 is when characters comment on that. “Enough of Saw 25 and all!” [Laughs]”
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!