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EXCLUSIVE: 'Scream' 2. Years Later - - Neve Campbell and Co- Stars Share Untold Stories From the Set "What’s your favorite scary movie?" Ghostface It’s been 2.

Ghostface slashed into theaters in Scream. Casey Becker, played. Drew Barrymore. Three sequels and an MTV series later, Scream is just. Dec. 2. 0, 1. 99. By the mid- ’9. 0s, slasher films were considered dead and. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Freddy’s Dead. The Final Nightmare and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday.

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Until. of course, Scream changed the game entirely. Praised by theatergoers and critics alike, Scream. It was unheard of at the time for horror movies, and. Following the success of Scream. I. Know What You Did Last Summer and.

Urban Legend,as well as the revitalization of long- gone icons, such. Chucky, Freddy and Jason. While many of the horror films that followed were box office. Scream. With the combined.

Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson, they created. The movie was. self- aware.

The characters - - Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), Dewey Riley. David Arquette) and Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) - - knew about other. There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie." Randy Meeks “Every generation has that one movie,” Williamson tells ET. There were no other horror movies.

The ones that were coming out, they weren’t. I wanted to write the movie and make the movie that I.

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I felt like this was it. In addition to the first film. Williamson penned the sequel as well as the last installment.

Ehren. Kruger stepped in to write Scream 3 while the screenwriter went off to. Teaching Mrs. Tingle with.

Helen Mirren and Katie Holmes.)While Williamson is now known for creating TV series. Dawson’s Creek, The Vampire Diaries, The Following and ABC’s upcoming. Time After Time, Scream was his very first script to be produced. I was. a starving, struggling nobody who really just wanted to pay his rent,”.

Williamson admits now. I did not think it would live on the way it did.” It’s almost hard to imagine the cast before Scream, but Cox was still an ensemble. Friends, which was only three.

Gale Weathers. “I wrote a letter to Wes Craven - - I think I was always. I said, ‘I really can be a bitch!’” Cox says. Arquette knew from the beginning that lightning had struck. There was a scene I had with Courteney (Cox) early on in. Arquette tells ET. Over the course of the franchise, Cox famously went on to marry. Arquette, who became the most famous of the. Arquette siblings during the mid- ’9. She’s very witty and on her feet and.

Arquette told ET on the set of the. She’s stunning to look at!” The two later divorced in.

Movies don’t create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative." Billy Loomis Rounding out the cast were Rose Mc. Gowan (Tatum Riley). Matthew Lillard (Stu Macher), Skeet Ulrich (Billy Loomis) and Jamie Kennedy.

Randy Meeks), all newcomers with just a handful of prior film credits.“It was really new for all of us,” Campbell says. At the. time, we could see there was talent around us and we knew the writing was good. It became a star cast later.”It was Williamson’s brother who suggested Campbell for the.

Sidney Prescott. “My brother kept saying, ‘I read the script and I. Party. of Five.’ And she had already auditioned!

I went back and everyone had. She walked away with it.”.

Photo: Dimension Films. Campbell, who reunites with Williamson for the occasional. I. didn’t know any of that; that’s amazing! It’s incredible and very flattering,” she. People say to me, ‘How did you choose this role?’ and I’m. Really, the role chose me.’ It was the perfect fit, I was really lucky,”. Campbell adds. “As an actress, especially at that age, in my twenties, it was.

She’s strong. and holds her own and fights back and wins in the end and it’s a good message. It was my first leading female role in a film and it did. I never thought I could. Campbell says. Today, her career includes lead roles in Wild Things and Robert Altman’s The Company, as well as notable. Mad Men and House of Cards.  “Why do you want to know my name?” Casey Becker Campbell owes that big break to Barrymore, who was easily. For a while, she was going to play.

Sidney,” Williamson says. Instead, Barrymore volunteered to play Casey Becker. I wanted the biggest star of the film to be in that opening. Williamson says of the sequence that would become a staple of the Scream franchise, with Jada Pinkett- Smith. It’s pretty iconic.

My mother is like, ‘To this day I can’t watch that,’” she. Liev Schreiber, Kristen Bell, Anna Paquin and Lucy Hale all taking turns. There were even talks of getting Alicia. Silverstone, who was fresh off the success of Clueless. But that was all of five minutes because. Drew Barrymore said, ‘The thing I love about this movie is. I want to play Casey.

That’s who I want to be,’” Williamson. Watch Wayne`S World 2 Download more. It was amazing for me because when I watched the film, I.

Barrymore told ET in 1. I. mean, it is so scary that even though I was in it - - I was there, I knew. It was so scary that the Motion Picture Association of.

America clashed with Craven over the scene’s violence and intensity. Photo: Mondo. “My favorite memory is the first night. Standing outside in.

Drew Barrymore picked it up,” Williamson recalls. It was my first. film, the first night, I was in tears. You couldn’t talk to me. I was just. walking around in tears.” “It was one of the best written scenes I've ever read in my. Barrymore continued.

I mean, what Kevin Williamson did with this script. The opening sequence of the first film is genius,” Campbell.

A lot of people tout it as one of the best opening sequences of any. I think that’s fantastic.” For the cast, the moments offscreen were just as enjoyable. The cast would hang out in the mornings because we would shoot all night,”.

Campbell says. “We would get in cars and go back to our hotel and we would be. The look on those peoples’ faces was.

What’s the matter, Sidney? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.” Billy Loomis “We would close all the curtains and hang out and have a. Campbell reminisces. We were sitting in one of our bedrooms and we. Could you imagine if this was good enough that there might be a. Halloween costume?’ And we were like, ‘No, that couldn’t possibly happen!’ And.

I still see the Halloween costume every year in all. It’s pretty amazing.”Williamson gives much of the credit to Craven, a famed. Nightmare. on Elm Street and The Hills Have Eyes. This script could have gone so wrong. We met with different.

They never saw it as a horror movie,” he recalls. Wes was the perfect choice, because he read it and said, ‘This is scary.’ He. Forget the comedy, let that ride, we have to make this movie scary.’”In addition to Williamson, Craven’s participation was a huge. He was a really wonderful man,” Campbell says. He had a fantastic sense of humor…You’d be shooting these horrific scenes and.

Cut.’ It was a little bit. He was incredibly talented and made fantastic films,” Campbell. Wes Craven is just the greatest man,” Cox says. I love. him.”“My favorite memory of Wes is watching him watch an. Scream screening,” Arquette says. He would chuckle like a little kid when the audience would jump out of. It was a huge loss,” Williamson laments.

He was a. pioneer.”  “No, please don’t kill me, Mr. Ghostface, I wanna be in the sequel!” Tatum Riley And it’s that loss that likely will prevent the franchise. Wes and I, when we were starting Scream. Scream 5 and 6,” Williamson says. Now. without Wes, I feel like you have to sort of answer the questions of how and. I don’t know how to do it without Wes and I don’t know why to do it.”“It would be tough to do it without Wes,” Campbell says. Williamson. “His vision was so clear and he was so good.

I think. it would be painful. It doesn’t mean it would never happen, but it would be. Nobody is talking about it at the moment.” And while fans everywhere may be crying out in disappointment. The first film was a commentary on.

If there were a fifth, what exactly would the. If some filmmaker could answer that question, then go for.