To SCREAM or not to SCREAM, that is the current question. Mr. Ammon’s last update on the franchise’s fourth installment said that Neve Campbell wasn’t yet interested, Jaime Kennedy was, and The Weinstein Company would only do it if Wes Craven directed. Personally, I feel that the last instance is the most important. It’s also the subject of today’s article!
Our friends at STYD caught up with Mr. Craven (above doing a cameo in the first SCREAM) at Comic Con and asked him the obvious question: Why did he direct MUSIC OF THE HEART? Just kidding! The real question was, of course, what is up with SCREAM 4. Here’s how he replied:
“There has been contact. I haven’t spoken to Bob Weinstein but they have checked with my agent. I’m not saying ‘no.'” Okay, interesting. From the way that SCREAM 3 was handled, I thought for sure that Craven wanted out of the series. But apparently, ol’ Ghostface isn’t dead to him yet. Here’s what he says it’d take to bring him back: “It really is: Is there a script? What I found increasingly in the SCREAM series is that the script were being written while we were shooting. The first one was a written script, it went out to the whole town and the Weinsteins jumped on it. There was very little changed in that. But 2 and 3? There were a lot of other people, including myself, writing on those.”
I wonder if Kevin Williamson heard about this. After working on the scripts for SCREAM 1 & 2, he basically handed the writing reigns over to Ehren Kruger (Freddy relation?) for part 3. Williamson seemed disinterested with the pop-culture horror phenomenon he created and decided to move on to Oscar-worthy efforts like TEACHING MRS. TINGLE and CURSED. I’m just trying to illustrate that it’s been a long time since Kevin has had any sort of hit. Maybe he should come crawling back to Craven and SCREAM on his bloody hands and knees?
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