Scream 4!!!!! - Part 4

[Jennifer Walters]

Here it is, folks! Scream-Trilogy has posted what appears to be Kevin Williamson's early draft of Scream 4!

http://scream-trilogy.net/Z_05-17-10.pdf

Edit : Some of the changes for the actual movie were much better, although there's some dialogue from Kirby in this draft I wish they had kept.

Not a fan of this in the slightest. Sidney is so sour. There's too many side false red herrings. That Mr. Baker thing is just unnecessary and I much prefer what we ended up with.

 

[bullets]

A quick fix to that would've been making Kirby the heroine.

That's what I was getting at. Although it would of been clever to have Jill's plan work , I do prefer the ending because it was a proper sendoff for the series. If they do make Scream 5 my hope is that Kirby does appear. I'm not sure it should take place in Woodsboro or follow Sidney. It seems like there's no point to dragging her into this again unless the plan is to kill her off.

 

[GoldGoblin]

They should make Kirby the new victim and kill off Sydney,Gale,and Dewey.

 

[GoldGoblin]

They could make Stu's house a bed and breakfast where guests also play a murder mystery game.But the game is for real,and by the time they figure it out there are only a few guests left alive.

 

[kickass]

They could make Stu's house a bed and breakfast where guests also play a murder mystery game.But the game is for real,and by the time they figure it out there are only a few guests left alive.

Clue : Scream Edition?

 

[kickass]

Not a fan of this in the slightest. Sidney is so sour. There's too many side false red herrings. That Mr. Baker thing is just unnecessary and I much prefer what we ended up with.

I was reading the comments on that site about this script version and it boggles my mind how many fans think this is better than the actual film we got. This version of the script is very bland and the whole 3rd act is a mess. Thank goodness for the changes!

 

[DACrowe]

I mean there are some things in the script I like. Such as the dig at M Night. I actually loved how they straight out call out Rob Zombie and Michael Bay by name for "****** remakes."

But there is just too many pop culture references, the worst being how Williamson keeps praising the '90s horror era for "giving away the rules" and causing them to make so many remakes today because the post-modern '90s gave the game away and forced Hollywood to go back to square one. While there is some truth to that, it is just self-aggrandizing ego-stroking on his part as he wrote most of those '90s meta-horrors and it feels like Scream has its head up its own ass.

And beyond that, the opening kills are off-screen, Sidney is just very unlikable and bitter towards Gale and almost all the characters which contradicts the "finding inner-peace" and strength angle Williamson introduced her with and she has in the final film. The reason Charlie's betrayal of Kirby works so well as he pines for her in the whole final film and then when she "saves him" he stabs her twice in the stomach with a butcher's knife. Instead, they're just out-triviaing each other the whole script here and he only is pissed she got the questions right. Plus, there's no Stab-a-thon which was great. And then the lack of a resolution?

Eh. It is about 70% or so of the dialogue in the final film and it is the basic plot. Williamson brought Scream back with a vengeance with his story and most of the dialogue, but however difficult Bo Weinstein may have been, the film was better after the rewrites in the finished version.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, the movie is definitely better in the final film. I mean no Stab-A-Thon? Plus the characters didn't seem to matter as much.

 

[kickass]

Yeah, in the draft of the script, the 3rd act seemed so lost and messy. It was just the new kids hanging out at the house disappearing, reappearing, disappearing, reappearing, etc..........And how the hell did Jill attack Charlie when the scene right after is her upstairs in Kirby's bedroom? And that ending was just plain stupid.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

I perfer the edition of Scream 4 we got overall.

 

[Marx]

Same here.

 

[Matt Mortem]

I got my Scream trilogy in the mail today. I already got the first one down and have started the second. I'm hoping to watch all 4 by nights end.

 

[kickass]

Yikes! Hope you don't go on a crank call killing spree afterwards haha. That's alotta scream

 

[Matt Mortem]

They look pretty good on Blu ray, nothing too amazing

 

[GoldGoblin]

Scream 5 could have Stu be the killer,and in the end of the movie he can tell us how that he was in a mental institution.And how a nurse falls in love with him and helps him escapes.And the asylum doesn't know that he is missing.

Or it could do a flashback of Scream 1,where a cop with the same built of Stu rolls the tv off of Stu and Stu is still alive and kills the cop.Then Stu switches clothes with him and then slams the tv onto the cops face.

Or in the ambulance,the EMT realizes that Stu still has a pulse and starts to help him.When Stu comes to,Stu kills the EMT and switches clothes with him and messes the EMT's face up so no one can recognize him.

Or you can have Stu and Jill in an asylum and a psycho fan is an orderly or a nurse and helps them to escape and keeps the rest of the staff to think that they are still there.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Or it could do a flashback of Scream 1,where a cop with the same built of Stu rolls the tv off of Stu and Stu is still alive and kills the cop.Then Stu switches clothes with him and then slams the tv onto the cops face.

Would he then kill Syd and frame a mentally ill man dressed as John Wayne Gacy?

 

[GoldGoblin]

What if the flashback shows how Sydney,Dewey,Gail were the killers and Stu was a victim.

 

[antsman41]

I always hated that Roman didn't have a film of him stalking Billy to make it seem more full circle and real that he had to confront Billy about his Father/Maureen video. Plus, it wouldn't seem so imaginary feeling, that Roman did that with the Billy from S1...

It would have been cool to seen Skeet back, recreating his 90s look.

 

[DACrowe]

So for those who bought the box set, how is that "Still Screaming" documentary? I saw the bio thing back when Scream 4 dropped in April and it was good, but I hear "Still Screaming" is better and goes in-depth on Scream 2 and even Scream 3! I would love to watch it, but not buy a box set which I already own two of the movies of in.

 

[Matt Mortem]

So for those who bought the box set, how is that "Still Screaming" documentary? I saw the bio thing back when Scream 4 dropped in April and it was good, but I hear "Still Screaming" is better and goes in-depth on Scream 2 and even Scream 3! I would love to watch it, but not buy a box set which I already own two of the movies of in.

I didn't finish it, but that Still Screaming was really cool. I liked it a lot and it gave a lot of info on the films.

 

[Punisher Rising]

Still Screaming's a very good documentary and any Scream fan should like it. A lot of information and history behind the first three movies is delved into.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Oh, man, I really want to watch that. I got the first two movies for my birthday in April. Hopefully someone posts it on youtube eventually.

 

[Punisher Rising]

I don't think any Scream fan would be disappointed with Still Screaming, it's a great retrospective and insight into the series.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I just read an interview with Marley Shelton and it sounds like she knows a bit about where her character Judy Hicks would go in Scream 5 if there's one. It sounds like to me things are sort of falling slowly into place.

 

[bullets]

Williamson did outline a direction for 5 and 6 he just didn't pull it all together. I was just looking at my EW Scream issue the other day. If it doesn't happen it will be interesting to hear what he had in mind.

I'm glad Judy survived , The female version of Dewey.