The Unmade Screams We Never Got to See

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There are seven ‘Scream’ movies —and a bunch more that were never finished.n

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Conceived as a darkly bloody satireof the derivative world of slasher franchises,Screamis now itself one of the longest running slasher franchises in history. To date, it’s produced seven films and a TV series over 30 years. (For sake of comparison:Halloweenwas less than 20 years old when the firstScreamhit theaters in 1996.) Who was it that said youeither die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Ghostface?

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The Screamseries has mocked almost every conceivable aspect of horror film and fandom — except the world of development hell, where, ironically, severalScreamsequels have spent a significant amount of time. Almost every single movie in the series sinceScream 2has premiered in a distinctly different form than its initial concept, as scripts were revised, writers were replaced, endings were reshot, and actors were fired.

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Below you’ll find four notableScreams that were killed before they could escape into public view, like so many of Ghostface’s victims through the last three decades. (RIP.)

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Kevin Williamson’s Scream 3

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WhenScreamcreator Kevin Williamson sold the franchise to Miramax — back when it was still just an idea of his calledScary Movie —he included outlinesfor multiple sequels. Williamson stuck around forScream 2,but by the timeScream 3came around he was busy on other projects. Theproducers then brought in Ehren Kruger to flesh out Williamson’s outline into a full script, but over the course of development,Scream 3became an entirely different film than Williamson had conceived.

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In 2013, Williamson told Entertainment Tonightthat in his original Scream 3 story “the killers were basically a fanclub of Woodsboro kids that had formed because ofStab 1andStab 2 …They were all doing the killings and the big surprise of the movie was when Sidney walked into the house after Ghostface had killed everyone … and they all rose up. None of them were actually dead and they’d planned the whole thing.”

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Williamson later repurposed some of his ideas fromScream 3forhis TV seriesThe Following, and the killers’ motivations, with some major changes, also became part ofScream 4.But the “fan club”idea never made it into aScreamin quite this way.

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The Original Versions ofScream 5 & 6

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Scream 4might have had an even more convoluted development thanScream 3. Kevin Williamson did write the script for that one — but thenhis script was heavily rewritten by others before and even during production. The movieeventually got a totally different ending than the one Williamson had planned. WilliamsonwantedScream 4killer Jill Roberts (Emma Roberts) to survive the film, and then to becomea main characterin two more sequels that would have formed a kind of trilogy within the broader franchise.

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Director Wes Craven eventually shot a new ending with theScream legacy heroes finally killing Jill after it initially appears like she’s gotten away with her crimes. (That’s because in the original script she had; the hospital revenge sequence that now concludes Scream 4was a late addition.)In 2022, Williamson toldBloody Disgustingthat had Jill survived as he intended,Scream 5would have been about Jill in college.

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“Then murders started on campus,” he explained. “And it was a killer who knew she was the killer from the last film. So the killer kept trying to expose her, so she would have to kill to keep it covered up.So it was killer meets killer. And Sidney was a professor at that school.” That’s a fun idea for a sequel!

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Then, Williamson said, “Scream 6was gonna answer whatever happened between Dewey and Gale,” with a smaller role for Sidney and bigger parts for Dewey and Gale. ButScream 4 got rewritten, Jill died, and the nextScreamsequel didn’t arrive for another11 years.

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Scream VI Before Neve Campbell’s Departure

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WhenScream VIdid finallydebut in 2023, it was the first movie in the franchise without its central star, Neve Campbell. In the movie, her absence is explained by characters mentioning that in light of Ghostface’s latest rampage,Campbell’s Sidney has gone into hiding in order to keep her family safe.

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That’s what we saw after Campbell decided to bow out of the movie after feeling like she was not being “valued” by the series. “Ithink it’sreally important for us to be valuedand to fight to be valued,” she explained. “I honestly don’t believe that if I were a man and had done five installments of a huge blockbuster franchise over 25 years, that the number that I was offered would be the number that would be offered to a man. And in my soul, I just couldn’t do that.”

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Scream VIwas so far along in its development by the time Campbell declined to return that the early scripts for the moviealready includedher character. HelloSidney.comhas an entire post that details this version of the screenplay and how it differed from the final film; many of the changes are cosmetic (some ofSidney’s lines were given to other characters), but most fundamentally the movie would have been truer to the Sidney of earlierScreams — who does not seem like the type to hide from trouble.

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In the script, when Sidney learns about Ghostface’s return, she leaves her family and heads to Manhattan, where she helps the younger characters figure out the killer’s identity and defeat him. She would have gotten a scene reuniting with Courteney Cox’s Gale Weathers, and helped defeat the latest Ghostface by droppingthe same TV on him that she used to kill the firstGhostface lo those many years ago. (“Second time I’ve done that, if you can believe it,” was her scripted one-liner.)

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The Original Scream 7 plan

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After the success ofScream VI, producers quickly got to work on a direct continuation of the story. But theScream 7that in theaters in 2026 is totally different from the one that was first planned three years earlier. SinceScreamreturned in 2022,its overarching story followed sisters Sam and Tara Carpenter, played by actors Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega. (Sam is also the daughter of Billy Loomis, the killer from the originalScream.)

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But then Barrera was fired fromScream 7, reportedly because of comments she made about the war in Gaza. Then Ortega left the project, supposedly over scheduling issues with herTV series,Wednesday.With both of his leads gone, director Christopher Landon then dropped out of the project as well.

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Landon later said in an interview (viaEntertainment Weekly) thatthe “whole script” forScream 7was “about [Sam]” and that his film simply wouldn’t work without her. (“I didn’t sign on to make ‘aScreammovie,’” he added. “I signed on to makethatmovie. When that movie no longer existed, I moved on.”)

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Instead,Scream 7focuses on Sidney and her daughter (Isabel May). One suspects, given the history of this franchise and its unmade sequels, we will eventually learn more about what that Sam-centric film would have been about.

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Ghostface has slashed his way through more than two decades of horror movies. Here‘s how they all stack up against each other.

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Scream 3 should have plenty of material to target; it’s the entry in the franchise all about trilogies. In practice, it turns out the “rules” of trilogies aren’t quite that codified, and they’re not that different from sequels. As a result, a lot of Scream 3’s satire is as dull as a prop knife. After three movies in five years, the franchise was starting to run out of creative juice. (In this one, they even resort of allowing Ghostface to imitate any person’s voice — including a dead woman! That’s just stretching the “rules” too far.) No wonder the fourth film took more than a decade to emerge from Woodsboro.

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