In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to talk about the rules of the sequel and make sure the body count is higher as we review “Scream 2”…
When Kevin Williamson was originally writing a script he called “Scary Movie,” he was so nervous about handing it over to his agent that he immediately began penning the opening scene to a potential sequel.
After sending those pages over to his agent, the idea struck them that they were no longer just selling a script to a studio — there were introducing them to a franchise. The film eventually became “Scream” and after a massive opening month in theaters, Miramax executives were frothing at the mouth for a sequel.
Because there was so much mystery surrounding the identity of the killers in the first film, Williamson knew he had to be extra secretive for the sequel so he wrote multiple endings and even had his assistant write a dummy script that got leaked with Dewey as the killer.
Williamson’s worst nightmare came true when the real script actually did get leaked but by then the dummy version had made the rounds and nobody believed the second one was legit. At that point it was just a time crunch with production because the studio wanted to release the sequel less than one year after the original hit theaters.
The follow up centered around Sidney Prescott heading off to college in Ohio but soon the past comes back to haunt her when a copycat Ghostface starts murdering people around her….
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to talk about the rules of the sequel and make sure the body count is higher as we review “Scream 2”…
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