SCREAM 4 [2011] THREAD

Scream 4 [2011] Theatrical Trailer

Although the "Scream" franchise was intended to be a trilogy, a 4th film was rumored on & off several times since the release of Scream 3. The movie was officially announced in July 2008 by Dimension Films & was released in theaters in 2011, eleven years after Scream 3.

Wes Craven stated he was not going to return as director unless the script was as good as Scream (1996).

On March 22, 2010, Variety announced that Wes Craven was officially signed on as director.

In May of 2010, Cathy Konrad, a producer of all three previous films, filed a lawsuit against the Weinstein Company, stating her production company had a first-rights deal with the Weinstein’s to produce all of the films in the franchise. The lawsuit was eventually dropped.

Before shooting the movie, Hayden Panettiere (Kirby) had a burglar break into her house and while the police were on their way she climbed out on to the roof and waited until they arrived.

At a table read on June 25, 2010, the actors and actresses were told to stop reading at page 75, to prevent those already cast in the film from knowing the climax.

Screenwriter @kevwilliamson had repeated clashes with the Weinsteins, resulting in them once again hiring Ehren Kruger for re-writes, and the script varied heavily from the original drafts.

Here’s an early draft to check out here: —> https://screenplaysandscripts.com/script_files/S/Scream%204.pdf

In an early draft of the script, Gale and Dewey had a baby, but was changed after it was decided bringing a baby into the film would make shooting "impossible".

The film suffered two casting changes in quick succession as shooting had begun.

Lake Bell had originally been cast as Judy Hicks but was forced to drop out due to "scheduling conflicts".

She was replaced by Marley Shelton.

This is the ONLY horror franchises to have both its main characters as well as its director return for all of its sequels.

SCREAM 4 [2011] Official Poster

Despite being the MOST recognizable face of the "Scream" franchise, this is the only installment where Ghostface has appeared on any of the North American posters or home media release covers.

The characters of Scream 4 appeared only on international posters for the franchise.

This movie opened in U.S. theaters on April 15, 2011, fifteen years to the date after Scream (1996) began filming.

STAB 6

[Cut short due to time limit.]

Stab 7

FUN FACT

Rachel and Chloe in the opening scene are criticizing Stab 5 for using Facebook as a method for Ghostface to stalk and kill victims. This is a nod to an abandoned idea of using Facebook as a way to communicate and taunt his victims in the original script.

The film is critical of horror remakes and the so-called "torture-porn" horror. Interestingly, director Wes Craven previously produced a handful of remakes of classic horror films.

OPENING SCENE
[Theatrical Version]

[Cut short due to time limit]

In the scene where Jenny explains to Marnie the story about the Stab movies, she says "Stab 5 has time travel, which is by far the worst."

Wes Craven had the idea of time travel in dreams for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), but the studio rejected it.

Wes Craven said the original opening would have taken place at a party celebrating Sidney's completion of her book, during which Ghostface would have attacked & stabbed Sidney. The film would have then taken place 3 years later. This was vetoed BC the time jump disrupts the flow.

During the opening, when Jenny is talking with the killer (just before Marnie is thrown through the back-porch door) she is clearly standing in the kitchen and by the stairs, but when Marnie's body flies through, Jenny is back in the living room by the door.

Lucy Hale was cast in the film without an audition. @lucyhale revealed in an interview that she was originally cast as Marnie Cooper, however she had scheduling conflicts with Pretty Little Liars, so she took the smaller role of Sherrie in the first scene.

The only film in the franchise in which no male character is featured in the opening scene.

Scream fans pointed out that Tatum's death was a great scene, BUT garage door motors aren’t strong enough to lift a person off the ground. This movie has a garage door close & rise once the safety sensors are tripped.

A much more realistic way if you were to die by garage door.

In June of 2010, Wes Craven asked his fans following his Twitter account what his cameo should be. The cameo was ultimately cut from the film (it's included as a deleted scene). He had a cameo as a forensics technician during the crime scene with Jenny and Marnie's corpses.

Wes Craven’s Cameo in Scream 4 [2011] as the coroner.

[Deleted Scene]

The official "Scream 4" title card appears at around 11 minutes into the film, this could allude to the fact that this film was released 11 years after Scream 3.

While scouting for a bookstore to use in the film, Wes Craven spotted a new bookstore that had not yet opened in downtown Northville, Michigan named "Next Chapter Bookstore Bistro". Craven instantly loved the building, as well as the name, and decided to use both in the film.

In the deleted scenes, Dewey explains to Gale that Neil Prescott, Sidney's father, has passed away since appearing in Scream 3. This is the first time Sidney has returned to Woodsboro since his death.

There is a copy of Sidney's book "Out Of Darkness" on Dewey's bedside table.

Dewey's limp, a result of a stab wound in the first film and shown to be quite prominent in the sequels, is no longer present. Though not explained onscreen, the script dismisses it quickly with a screen direction note: "His limp is nearly nonexistent. Years of physical therapy."

As of this movie, Sidney is shown to no longer be in possession of the Greek necklace that Derek gave her in Scream 2. This may imply that Sidney moved on from his death in the decade since it occurred.

Amongst the novels on the shelf as Gale enters the bookstore, one of the more prominently seen is Eragon, the first of the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. A series that, like Scream, was originally intended as a trilogy, only to be expanded into a four part franchise.

Deputy Hicks is a nod to the character of the same name played by Michael Biehn in Aliens (1986).

Christina Ricci did a screen test for the role of Deputy Judy Hicks, while Aubrey Plaza had one for Rebecca, and Alia Shawkat had one for Kirby.

Ashley Greene & Selena Gomez was considered for the role of Jill Roberts.

Each of the new central characters is an archetype for one of the characters from the original.

The scene where Kirby says that her favorite scary movie is Bambi (1942) mirrors the scene in Scream 2 where Randy tells the killer that his favorite scary movie is Showgirls (1995).

A bust of Henry Winkler, former Principal in Scream, can be seen briefly in the hallway.

In this scene- Rebecca, @alisonbrie, "geeks out" with Gale on the street, saying "you were my 90s". A reference to Courteney Cox's participating in Friends.

"How long have you & Dewey been married?", Gale replies "ten years". Cox had been married to David Arquette for 10 years.

Olivia’s Death Scene // Sidney’s First Ghostface Call
[Clip]

Ghostface attacking Sidney & Jill.

Woodsboro Remake
[Deleted Scene]

When Sidney runs to Olivia's house she walks into the blood splattered room. Sidney runs her hand down the blood covered door frame. None of the blood smudges or goes onto her hand. If the murder had just happened the blood would have went onto her hand, & smeared down the frame.

During the "cinema club" meeting with Sidney and Gale, in the back of the room over Trevor's shoulder is a poster of Wes Craven's film The People Under the Stairs (1991).

It is revealed that Woodsboro does a Stab movie marathon party every year. This is just like the town of Texarkana, which features The Town That Dreaded Sundown, in the Park every October. The TTDS is also mentioned in the first film when everyone deserts the streets for curfew.

Lauren Graham was originally cast as Jill Roberts' mother. She made the announcement herself on The Jay Leno Show (2009). Two weeks later, she dropped out due to "script re-writes".

Deputy Perkins' first name is Anthony, making his name Anthony Perkins, the same name as the actor who played Norman Bates in the Psycho film franchise. In Psycho (1960).

A dummy of Tatum is visible at the "Stabathon".

Audience members dressed as Dewey and Gale can also be seen.

During the "Stabathon", when "Stab" is playing, the scenes are out of sequence. The first scene shown is the popcorn burning, then the shower scene. The shower scene is supposed to be in the opening sequence, before the popcorn burning scene.

Gale Get Attacked by Ghostface at Stabathon [ Clip]

First film in the franchise where Gale is actually stabbed, despite having appeared in all of the films. She is stabbed (non-fatally) in the shoulder during the Stab movie marathon by Charlie in the costume.

For the first time in the franchise, a CGI-added knife was used because director Wes Craven wanted to avoid using prop knives that are rubber, cardboard, and collapsible.

Anthony Anderson's line "not all cops die in the movies" is ironic, because in The Departed (2006), he played a cop who does.

Despite the unrealistic way Deputy Perkins walks around after being stabbed in the head, this is actually medically accurate. Director Wes Craven was watching a television special about a man who was stabbed in the head and the man actually took himself to the hospital.

When Kirby and Charlie are discussing trivia during the "after party", Kirby makes a joke that she has powers. Hayden Panettiere starred in Heroes (2006) as Claire Bennett, who had the ability to regenerate.

Rory Culkin is the brother of Kieran Culkin, who appeared in Music of the Heart (1999). Both films were directed by the late Wes Craven.

Ghostface calls Kirby
[Clip]

In the scene where Charlie is tied to the chair, all bloody and Kirby is behind the glass door looking at him, on the phone to Ghostface answering scary movie questions to save his life, this entire sequence mirrors the opening sequence from Scream (1996).

The fate of Kirby was never confirmed. According to Wes Craven, the shooting script included a scene near the end where Kirby is revealed to have survived, but the scene was cut during production.

"As you can see, Hayden was still moving..not saying she's coming back for sure."

SURPRISE, SIDNEY.

The outfit that Trevor wears in the final act of the movie is the same outfit that Neil Prescott (Lawrence Hecht) wore in the final act of Scream (1996). Trevor is also bound and gagged identically to Neil Prescott.

In all the films with two killers, there is always one killer with an actual motive against Sidney. Billy, Debbie Loomis, Roman, and Jill.

Their accomplice just wants to kill for the thrill, Stu, Mickey, and Charlie.

When Jill & Charlie explain their plan to Sidney- Charlie shows her footage of one of them killing Marnie & Jenny. This is actually footage of the alternate opening.

Also- this scene is considered a goof, beings the killer was filming in POV standpoint, but we see Ghostface.

This is the only Scream film in which the motive of the killer(s) does not have anything to do with the murder of Maureen Prescott, though her death is acknowledged.

Jill states later that her own mother had to die in order to "stay true to the original".

Jill Staging The Crime Scene
[Clip]

Jill beats herself up by throwing herself around the room, finally jumping backwards onto a glass table. This is almost exactly what Edward Norton's character did in Fight Club (1999).

Since Emma Roberts was the shortest cast member of the group of teens (5ft 2in), she had to wear high heeled boots that gave her three extra inches to stand as tall as everyone else.

She also had to wear hair extensions since her hair was relatively short before production.

How did she know? [Gale’s Deleted Scene]

Trevor ( @NicoTortorella), Jill's boyfriend, was originally meant to be Ghostface in early drafts of the script, but this idea was quickly vetoed after it was seen as too much of a comparison of the first film.

This and Scream 3 are only Scream film in which Dewey, ( @DavidArquette), isn't stabbed by the killer in some fashion. Instead, he is hit in the head with a bedpan by Jill.

Jills Death [SCREAM 4]

WEAR A VEST, SAVE YOUR CHEST!

Scream 4’s Rule of a Horror Remake:

1. Don't f*** with the original.

2. You have to be gay in order to survive.

3. Police officers will always die in horror movies.

4. The original ending is the false ending in a remake.

5. The killer is always right behind you.

SCREAM 4 END CREDITS

Alternate Opening [SCREAM 4]

Alternate Ending [SCREAM 4]

This movie and Scream (1996) have the same amount of running time at one hour and fifty-one minutes.

When Jill dies, she falls face-down. However, the last shot of her face shows her body supine and face-up in the alternate ending.

The first "Scream" movie not to feature the song "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

This is the only one of the 4 scream movies where the police don't arrest a suspect.

This is the first film in the franchise since Scream (1996) in which the killer is among one of the characters pictured on the poster.

Body Count: 14

(11 in the main film, 3 in opening Fake-out)

In the extended ending of Scream 4, Judy Hicks is the 4th surviving character behind Sydney, Dewey and Gale and has her right arm in a sling.

At the end of Scream 3, Mark Kincaid is the 4th surviving character behind Sydney, Dewey and Gale & is wearing his left arm in a sling.

As of 2011, the only "Scream" film where neither one of the killers is shot in the head.

Kevin Williamson, the writer of this film, has expressed a subtle annoyance towards the release of the film. During production, producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein brought in Ehren Kruger to polish up the script.

To make the acting more intense, director Wes Craven didn't allow the actors and actresses to meet who was on the other end of the line when Ghostface contacted them.

This has been done with every film in the franchise.

S4 was intended to be the 1st of a new trilogy, and pre-production for a fifth film had actually gone underway after this film's release. Unfortunately though, with Wes Craven's death, combined with Scream: The TV Series serving as the franchise reboot, led to the the end of S5.

The first teaser trailer debuted at the 2010 Spike TV Scream Awards.

The fourth installment brings the total number of killers throughout the franchise up to seven.

SCREAM [1996] // SCREAM 4 [2011]

Rarely has a film franchise made it to four films with the sequels consistently remaining numbered titles, without subtitles or any kind of variation: Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, and Scream 4.

This is especially noteworthy because most of the franchises spoofed in the film

Emma Roberts auditioned for the film mostly out of nostalgia, as she grew up watching the Scream movies (though she is scared of horror films in real life). She also wanted to step out of her comfort zone and play against type, having mainly done family films prior.

As seen in the gag reel, there was an on-going prank on-set where somebody dressed in the Ghostface mask would jump out and scare an actor or actress at a time when Ghostface wasn't scripted to appear.

After a test screening, Wes Craven and Bob Weinstein did not think two scenes played well for the audience.

The scenes involved Jenny Randall, who is stalked at her house, and Rebecca Walters, who is attacked in a parking garage.

Here’s Rebeccas Alternate Death

Roger Ebert gave this movie 2 stars and said the following: ""Scre4m" provides exactly what its audience will expect: one victim after another being slashed, skewered, stabbed, gutted and sliced, with everyone in on the joke. Maybe that's your idea of a good time." LOL OKAY

Here’s a behind the scenes clip of Kirby & Jill, plus a closer look at Sidney’s rooftop experience!

Domestically, it only made $38 million on a $40 million budget. Worldwide, it came close to $100 million, but it was still enough to halt plans for future films.

Here’s a great behind the scenes clip which gives us a look at how Scream 4 became the masterpiece it is today!

Watch the full video here: —->

Shot over a period of sixty days. Filming ran for two weeks longer than planned.

SCREAM 4 [2011] Promo Shots

This was sadly the last film directed by @wescraven before he died from brain cancer on August 30, 2015, at the age of 76.

He is truly & dearly missed. Wes touched so many people, & change all of our ways in one shape or another.

Thank you Wes. We love you, & miss you.

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