At this point, the cat is really out of the bag (and ready to be skinned): Kevin Williamson is working on a new SCREAM trilogy. While it’s big news, you can count me as being in the “why and who cares?” camp. SCREAM was a fun moment in time; let’s move on.
But we’re not moving on. Or, to be more precise, we had moved on, but we’re back again. Williamson, who is also hard at work on the CW’s surefire hit “The Vampire Diaries”, spoke with iF Magazine about the state of the franchise, and what the impetus was for getting it going again.
“Bob Weinstein has been bugging me a hundred billion years…“‘Let’s do it. Let’s do it.’ Wes and I were like ‘no way.’ Then finally I was taking some time off, sitting around thinking ‘what if I had to do SCREAM 4?’ I wasn’t interested, [but then I thought] ‘a trilogy – now I’d be interested! Could we do that and develop a trilogy?’ and then I started thinking about the story. I created three different chapters, broke it up and I got really excited.”
Williamson goes on to explain that the story will focus on Gale Weathers and Deputy – or Sheriff? – Dewey, ten years after SCREAM 3. Ugh. Do we really need more Dewey in our lives?
To read iF’s article, head on over HERE.