If you’re looking forward to the next installment of the Scream series from filmmaker Wes Craven, you might be amongst the fans who were concerned that the film was undergoing re-shoots. While this can sometimes imply a clunky story and flawed resolution, the master director claims that this is not the case.
Wes Craven tweeted last week that production had returned to the Michigan location as did co-star Aimee Teegarden who was called in for the pick-ups along with Community’s Alison Brie.
While reshoots are usually required to save a movie, for Scream 4 it’s just to enhance certain scenes with additional sequences. Original Scream writer Kevin Williamson penned the script and Scream 3 scribe Ehren Kruger was brought in while Williamson was busy overseeing production on ‘The Vampire Diaries’.
Check out a set visit with Entertainment Tonight from September 2010, chatting with stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette and director Wes Craven.
The initial test screenings have proved very positive and director Wes Craven speaking with EW from the snowy set in Detroit, clarified that he wasn’t recapturing shots, but creating entirely new ones:
They’re not reshoots… We had a couple test screenings and we saw two scenes where they had moments you could add to and we just saw a spectacular opportunity. Bob [Weinstein] just said to me basically, ‘You go to your dark side and I’ll give you the money!’ [Laughs] The two scenes were really good, but we saw how they could be spectacular, so we thought, let’s just go for it. They were key moments of the script, so we just decided to go back and go for the grand slam on them.
Craven was quick to disclaim rumors of a misfired ending:
No, the ending is totally kick-ass… We’re not gonna touch that. [The scenes being added to are] one scene that’s kind of in the late beginning and one scene that’s a little bit later.
The original ‘Scream’ offered a different take on the horror genre which was also fun trying to work out who would be the next victim and who was the masked killer, Ghostface. The new sequel looks like it has all the key ingredients with some extra bang for your buck. Judging from the second trailer, it seems to offer an updated analysis of the ‘slasher flick’, plus the trademark nail biting thrills we’ve come to expect from director Wes Craven.
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