There has been no dearth of “Scream 4” casting news these past few months, with a steady stream of young stars — Emma Roberts, Adam Brody, Hayden Panettiere, Nico Tortorella, Erik Knudsen, Marley Shelton and Rory Culkin — lining up alongside series regulars Courteney Cox and David Arquette to fight for their lives (in most cases futilely) in the face of a new spate of Ghostface killings.
In a recent chat with MTV News to discuss his 3-D supernatural thriller “My Soul to Take” (in theaters today), “Scream 4” director Wes Craven gave us a rundown of the fourth installment’s plot and revealed whether those new “Scream” trilogy rumors are true.
“The studio wants to be very, very secretive about it,” Craven admitted. “I think it’s kind of known that Neve is returning to her hometown for a short visit, and all hell breaks loose. But there’s also a whole cast of new characters — there’s some very, very interesting kids.”
Will we be seeing any of those “interesting kids” in some sequels? “It is or was a planned trilogy. I think the studio is realistic enough to say, let’s see how it does,” Craven said. But Kevin Williamson [the series creator and screenwriter] does have an idea for a planned trilogy out of it.”
Wes Craven Dishes On ‘Scream 4’ And Possibility Of New Trilogy
‘Cougar Town’ sneak peek: Jules has a new project
Hey, Josh Hopkins, what’s with the glasses and look of exasperation?
Oh yeah — your “Cougar Town” character, Grayson, is suffering from the effects of Jules’ (Courteney Cox) complete attention now that her son has left for college. With Travis (Dan Byrd) gone, Jules suddenly has a lot of free time and obsession space to fill, and Grayson is the unfortunate recipient of much of that, as you’ll see in Wednesday’s (Oct. 6) episode.
The clip below explains the glasses — though we don’t know whether anyone starts calling him “Tiny Four-Eyes” — and Grayson explains his feelings in song.
The episode, titled “Makin’ Some Noise,” also has the rest of the gang indulging their musical proclivities. At school, meanwhile, Travis struggles with his much-discussed “reinvention,” and we’ll get to see a little more of his roommate Kevin (LaMarcus Tinker of “Friday Night Lights”).
“Cougar Town” airs at 9:30 p.m. ET Wednesday on ABC. Here’s a piece of the episode:
First Look at Courteney Cox Arquette In Wes Craven’s ‘Scream 4
The first official image from Scream 4 has gone online via EW.com. The pic features Ghostface stalking Courtney Cox Arquette’s character, Gale Weathers.
Entertainment Weekly reports that Gale is now retired from being an entertainment journalist, married to Dewey (David Arquette) and bored with life until Ghostface returnsto kill again. Directed by Wes Craven, Scream 4 also stars Neve Campbell, Emma Roberts, and Hayden Panettiere.
The film stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, Nico Tortorella, Anthony Anderson, Kristen Bell, Anna Paquin and Marielle Jaffe.
The original Scream made its debut in 1996, and the trilogy has earned close to $300 million domestically.
The next chapter in this incredibly powerful franchise is slated to hit theaters on April 15, 2011.
ET First: Making ‘Scream 4’ is Like ‘Summer Camp’
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Only ET is with Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Emma Roberts and Neve Campbell on the set of Wes Craven’s highly anticipated sequel ‘Scream 4,’ 10 years after the last box office smash!
“It’s like going back to summer camp,” Neve tells ET. “The first film was such a blast for all us. At the time we had no idea how successful the film would be. … Coming back to it now after years of people enjoying them and seeing each other again, it’s nice.”
“You see some of the old, and some of the new, and something borrowed and something blue,” says Wes of the fourth installment, which reunites Courteney, David and Neve onscreen and also introduces a younger generation of up-and-coming actors.
“A lot of the audience that will see this film were infants when we made the others,” explains Wes. “I think the older actors are well-known, but they’re a little bit at the parental layer of consciousness for a lot of the audience, so it’ll be kind of fun to see where their stories are going, but it’s also great to introduce new characters and see how they’re going to factor in with things.”
“We all reunite at the beginning of the movie,” says Courteney, explaining that her character, Gale Weathers, has given up her job as a reporter to marry Deputy Dewey (played by David) and write books. “She’s written six Stab books and she has writer’s block, and she’s pretty bored, pretty miserable, pretty desperate, and all of a sudden some murders start happening and her life starts to look up. She likes a good murder.”
In addition to its huge success, the ‘Scream’ franchise also carries a lot of weight with Courteney and David because they first met and fell in love on the project.
“I can remember the day I met him like it was yesterday,” says Courteney, who credits Wes as “really instrumental” in bringing them together. “‘Scream’ 1 was really an intense crush and all that stuff, and ‘Scream 2’ we didn’t get along so well, and then ‘Scream 3’ we had just gotten married, and then ‘Scream 4’ we have [our six-year-old daughter] Coco, so it’s just been an evolution of things that have happened to us.”
“It’s been good having the whole family here,” says David, who reports that Coco is really into “Little House on the Prairie” right now. “That’s been the biggest change I would say.”
“It’s really doubly lovely,” adds Wes, “because I had a little bit to do with them getting together, and they got married, and they’ve had a good marriage and they have a wonderful little child, and it’s great icing on the cake.”
‘Scream 4’ is set to scare up some laughs in April of 2011.
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