I'll admit that I'd be willing to see Scream 4, but I'd happily stop there. Amazingly enough, screenwriter Kevin Williamson didn't consult me on whether or not to move forward with the next installment. It seems he's got a lot more planned for the franchise; whether we need it or not! Details:

[By now, most of you have heard that the Scream franchise is rising from the ashes, with original castmembers Courteney Cox, Neve Campbell, and David Arquette attached to finish the job they started. What you didn't know, and what we have just learned ourselves, is that this comeback is to usher in a brand new trilogy of Scream movies, with some brand new faces added to the mix.

Kevin Williamson, writer of the original and upcoming Scream flicks, provided some more details as to what audiences will see in the next installments:

"It'll take place right now, 10 years later, and it's going to take place in [Sidney Prescott's hometown of] Woodsboro. We'll have our three main characters, and we'll be introducing several more...We'll also be introducing a little group, a little ensemble of new castmembers. That'll take us through the next three. I guess I'll just have to be very aware of the fact that we're a '4' and that we're beating a dead dog. I'm going to make that very apparent in the dialogue... Come on. It's the age of the remake! And 3-D and all that [other horror fad material], can you imagine what ['Scream' movie-within-a-movie] 'Stab 10' is like?"]

Scream set the standard for modernized horror flicks back in the day - will the latest attempt rise to the top again? I suspect it will be like the Star Wars prequels - great in theory, given the current technology, but possibly dodgy in actual execution. Does the induction of a new (reputedly younger) cast mean that Courteney, David and Neve's characters finally get killed off?

[Photo Credit: A fake mock-up of the sequel poster. Not bad!]

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