Enough with the sequels and remakes, proclaims Wes Craven in interview for Scream 4
We’re still a year away from Scream 4, Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson’s reboot of the film series that started out cleverly playing off slasher film tropes before becoming so self-satisfied with the idea of playing off slasher film tropes that it failed to notice it was just as guilty of them. (Not to mention that the whole thing wrapped up in a “twist” more convoluted than most of the films it was supposedly spoofing.) But it’s apparently never too early to start talking about it: Teaser posters have already been released proclaiming, “New decade. New rules,” so Entertainment Weekly recently caught up with Craven to see what viewers could expect from the film—which is, according to Craven, just the first of the “next three pictures”—before he starts shooting in June with the reunited cast of Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette. Along with introducing a set of “new kids,” Craven promises it will continue the Scream story in a very “organic” way:
There have been 10 years of no Ghostface, but there has been the movie-within-a-movie Stab. We have fun with the idea of endless sequels, or “sequelitis” as Kevin calls it in the script. Sid goes through these three horrendous things, and Stab was based on those horrible things. And then they’ve been taken by a studio and run into the ground in a series of sequels. She has been off by herself and living her own life, and she’s even written a book that has gotten a lot of critical acclaim. She’s kind of put her life back together in the course of these 10 years. But, certainly, there would be no Scream without Ghostface, so she has to confront him again, but now as a woman who has really come out the darkness of her past.