INFO ON THE SEQUEL
*****UPDATES*****
For more sequel info updates (cause I can't add any more to this page,don't ask,) visit my soon-to-be-good SCREAM SEQUEL
page.
-First of all, I can confirm that Matthew Lillard will be back in the sequel
even though he died in the first film. He appears in flashbacks.
-Secondly, I can give you some character information obtained by The
Internet Movie Database as well as some information I found just around
the web.
Cast (in credits order)
Neve Campbell...Sidney Prescott
Courtney Cox...Gale Weathers
Liev Schreiber...Cotton Weary
rest of the cast listed alphabetically
David Arquette...Dewey Riley
Sarah Michelle Gellar...Helen (Sidney's College Roomate)
Jamie Kennedy...Randy
Ryan Lane...???
Patrick Lange...???
Laurie Metcalf...???
Else Neal...Sidney's Roomate
Jerry O'Connell...Derek (Sidney's Boyfriend)
Timothy Olyphant...???
Jada Pinkett...Sharon Masters (Sidney's friend)
Tori Spelling...Herself
-In the sequel, Randy becomes Gale Weather's Assistant and Dewey is no longer
a regular cop, but a College Security Guard.
SCREAM AGAIN?
by Michael McCarthy
I had the pleasure of reading an early draft of SCREAM II this week. First, let
me say it was easily as humorous as the first. Those of you who think all
sequels suck will actually find yourselves the brunt of many witty jokes
as you watch. Second, it was much more, well, horrific than the first film.
Indeed, screenwriter Kevin Willimamson has outdone himself. While there may
be homages galore, this is no remake or rehash of the first film. On the
contrary, a continuation is more like it. Besides, the first Scream was all
about homages anyway, wasn't it? At any rate, I have the following to report...
STAB, a movie based book "The Woodsboro Murders," plays in theaters while the
film takes place. The book, of course, is Gale Weathers' (Courtny Cox) telling
of the events that transipred in Scream. In this film witin the film,
Tori Spelling is literaly named whenever Neve Campbell's character Sidney
appears. Entertainment Weekly recently confirmed that Spelling does indeed play
Sidney in STAB. What's especially interesting though is that Johnny Depp
is named whenever Skeet Ulrich's character Billy appears! Has Depp signed
on to appear in Stab? Wish I knew. However, it would certainly make sense.
For one thing, Depp's first film was Wes Craven's Nightmare On Elm Street.
Secondly, everyone is always talking about how Ulrich looks like Depp.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Rumors for weeks have stated that Jada Pinkett's character is killed in
the opening scene, a psuedo-homage to Drew Barrymore's early offing in the
first Scream Film. However, these rumors ring false. There is only one character
identified as "an attractive young black woman" and this character is
Hallie, who does NOT die in the opening scene.
Another rumor I can shoot down is that which campbell's character Sidney
befriending Jerry O'Connell's Cotton Weary. While Sidney does feel guilty
that he has spent a year of his life in jail (thanks to her wrongfully
fingering him for the murder of her mother), the two are not friends.
What else? The setting for the film is a college campus where Sidney and
Hallie are pledging a sorority. Dewey is no longer Deputy Dewey, but, rahter,
a campus security dude, this thanks in part to a limp his wound in the
first film garnered him. Also, Randy the video geek has become Gale Weathers
new assistant.
OK, that's enough. If i go any further, I'll end up ruining a surprise (or two).
That's the last thing I want to do because, quite frankly, Scream II is
one sequel that is not going to suck. Actually, there is one more thing:
the title. The cover page says SCREAM II, but the first page says
SCREAM AGAIN. Guess that much has yet to be finalized...
STUFF FROM ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Well, I have some new info on the sequel courtesy of ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY.
I can give you some definites of who is going to be in the sequel. Up-and-
comming Gen-Xers which include Jada Pinkett (who is rumored to get
iced in the opening sequence, à la Barrymore), Sliders'
Jerry O'Connell, Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sarah Michelle
Gellar, and yes, even Tori Spelling, who will play Sidney.
Not to say that Neve Campbell won't be back as Sidney. Confused? Ok the
sequel takes place 2 years after the original, with Sidney (Campbell) going
off to college. Gale Weathers (being the bitch that she is) wrote a book
on the whole ordeal which was then made into a movie with Tori Spelling
playing Sidney. Ironic isn't it? Afterall, in the first one Sidney did say
(in response who would play her in a movie),"With my luck, I'd guess Tori Spelling."
So in other words, the first Scream becomes a movie within the new movie.
Also, there has been talk of a SCREAM 3, and the script will be
finished in April '98. Wonder what will be in that one. Hopefully, Scream
won't be like the 80's teen slasher movies. Remember Jason Takes
Manhattan? At least Wes Craven is directing the second Scream
because when he left other people to direct the next billion Nightmare
on Elm Streets, Drew Barrymore's character Casey had it
right when she said, "The first one was scary, but the rest sucked." Only
Wes Craven's New Nightmare came close to being as good as the first.
The sequel has been pushed up from Dec 19 to Dec 12, which would put SCREAM 2
in the path of the next James Bond flick, Tomorrow Never Dies, and
James Cameron's Titanic, both due Dec. 19. Bob Weinstein
(Mirimax cochairman)says confidently, "We already have a built- in
audience for the sequel."
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