August 25, 2009, 5:10 am : A Beautiful Addition To Scream?

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Posted on BD then the post was deleted. That’s not like BD! Hmm…

“Update: Apparently, a lot of websites are having trouble with giving proper credit as this story comes from Wiki, making it extremely unlikely. AnnaLynne McCord, the young sexy temptress of “Nip/Tuck” and star of the new “90210″, is said to have been offered a role in Dimension Films’ Scream 4, reports the Examiner.

HAHA, Kevin W. is the man. Via Twitter:

“Anna Lynn thing is not true. She’s awesome. But I’m still writing the script. No casting going on.”

August 11, 2009, 2:24 am : Courteney Cox Offers Up A Few More Scream 4 Hints

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More from Sci Fi Wire:

Courteney Cox, who is set to star in a fourth Scream movie, elaborated on a few details that were revealed by writer Kevin Williamson a couple of days ago about the sequel, which picks up the story 10 years after the events in 2000’s Scream 3. Cox will reprise the role of TV reporter Gale Weathers.

“She has a kid now,” Cox said in a group interview Saturday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif., where she was promoting her ABC show Cougar Town. “She’s married to Dewey.”

Scream 3 ended with Deputy Dewey (David Arquette, Cox’s real-life husband) proposing to local newswoman-turned-true-crime guru Gale. The characters bonded during their investigation of the first Scream murders, through the campus crimes of Scream 2 and the film-within-the-film of Scream 3.

Williamson previously described Scream 4 as the beginning of a new trilogy. Cox has no trepidations about beginning another three films. “No, because [I take things] one day at a time,” she said. “But I heard the idea for Scream 4, and it’s fantastic.”

The Scream series tweaked the conventions of horror movies as film-obsessed killers terrorized teens a la their favorite slashers. Nearly a decade later, Cox said that she is ready for round four. “I’m excited,” she said. “It’ll be really fun.”

With Cox and Williamson both beginning new shows this season, Williamson expects to turn in a final draft for Scream 4 during hiatus and make final deals with cast and directors after that.

August 11, 2009, 2:13 am : Williamson: Scream 4 To Start New Trilogy

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From Sci-Fi Wire:

Scream writer Kevin Williamson offered more details about the proposed fourth installment he is writing, which he envisions as the beginning of a new trilogy of tongue-in-cheek horror films and which may feature original stars Courteney Cox and David Arquette.

“Oh, it’s a new trilogy,” Williamson said in a group interview today in Pasadena, Calif., where he was promoting his upcoming CW series The Vampire Diaries at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. “It’s 10 years later. It is Gale Weathers 10 years later.”

Cox played Weathers, the local reporter who became a sensation for covering the killings in the 1996 original. Cox met her real-life husband, Arquette, on the films; he played Deputy Dewey, and Williamson accidentally suggested where Dewey would be in Scream 4.

“Sheriff Dewey, I’m sorry, Deputy Dewey, oops,” Williamson backpedaled. “It’s Dewey and Gale, and that’s it [from the original cast]. They met on the set. We all watched it happen, so the idea that we got ‘em back and that their relationship is sort of the emotional core of Scream 4 … so it’ll be a lot of fun.”

It’s been nearly a decade since the last movie, 2000’s Scream 3, and horror movies have changed a lot in the post-Scream era—a fact Williamson acknowledged.

“Can you imagine what the Stab franchise must be like right now?” Williamson said, referring to the films within the Scream films that mimicked the events of the movies. “We’re going to have a lot of fun with it.”

Williamson also plans to bring back the “ghost face” mask that every killer wore in the Scream films. “Yes, it will be, but there may be another one,” he said.

In the meantime, Williamson is gearing up The Vampire Diaries, and Cox has a new show, ABC’s Cougar Town, debuting in the fall. The plan is to shoot in both hiatuses.

“Well, I’m going to finish the script in the next couple of months,” Williamson said. “Then we’ll just start the process. [Scream director] Wes [Craven] wants to read a script before he’ll sign on, which makes sense. We’ve sort of chatted about it. I’m sure he would love to get back in the saddle. We’re kind of a family. We’re a Scream family that still exists, so the idea that we wouldn’t have dad sitting at the head of the table doesn’t make sense, so I’m going to try to. We’re going to make that happen.”

Craven’s interest and schedule, as well as other factors, will also determine when Scream 4 goes before cameras. “It depends on the hiatus schedule,” Williamson continued. “It will depend on timing. It’ll depend on maybe when we get in serious talks with Wes, what his schedule’s like. It’ll depend on The Vampire Diaries, because I’m committed to this. I have another show at ABC that no one even knows about that’s in first position. That could come in and just change everything. It’s a show I was developing with Warner Brothers when this came along. This moved really, really fast, so it put the ABC show on hold. So I’ve got to go back to that soon.”

Williamson had departed the Scream franchise after Scream 2, leaving Scream 3 to writer Ehren Kruger. What finally convinced him to write a new one?

“Oh, well, they’ve been bugging us,” Williamson said. “Bob Weinstein has been bugging me for 100 billion years. ‘Where’s Scream 4? Let’s do Scream 4! Let’s just do it, Kevin, let’s just do it.’ Wes and I were like, ‘No way, no way, no way.’ Then, finally, I was taking some time off, and I was sitting around going, ‘OK, what if I had to do Scream 4? If I had to do Scream 4, what would I [do]?’ I wasn’t interested, but a trilogy? Now I’d be interested. Can we do that? Can we pull that off? Could we actually develop a trilogy? Then I started thinking about the story, and I created three different chapters, I broke it out and I got really excited about it.”