Ehren Kruger, one of the worst screenwriters in the business (but also one of the busiest), has been brought on to do rewrites on Scream 4. Which is filming right now. Kruger is no stranger to the franchise, as he did some writing on the horrible third film.
But it seems that Kruger’s rewriters are causing problems. According to Zap2It, Lauren Graham dropped out after her role was slashed to nothing, and even Hayden Panetierre is ‘beyond frustrated with the changes.’
According to Shock Til You Drop Kevin Williamson isn’t doing the rewrites because he’s busy on The Vampire Diaries. Still, none of this bodes well. Hope you weren’t looking forward to this movie.
There is good news, though – Community‘s Alison Brie has joined the cast. For now. Until they write her out as well.
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As long as Alison Brie has a scene wearing next to nothing they can have my $12. Hell, I'll even pay for the 3D.
akiva goldsman is the king of bad screenwriters though.
Fuck.
This is upsetting. It sounded like everything was going so positively.
*sigh*
Hayden Panettiere, as an actress, is "beyond frustrating." So this should be great.
With any luck, this will result in the whole project getting dumped. Who the hell wanted a new Scream anyway? I have the most massive crush on Neve Campbell, but even I wasn't excited by another Scream movie. Let it die.
Who cares about SCREAM 4 when this jackass has a VIDEODROME remake in development according to IMDB? There's the real tragedy. He must be stopped.
Who cares? The opening Drew Barrymore scene of the original "Scream" was classic. The "rules of horror movies" scene was good, too. Everything else was pretty sub-par, so I don't really care what happens to Scream 4, or Scre4m, because I won't be paying money to see it.
How hard is it to finsh a script before you start filming, assholes? I write sometimes myself and I won't even put any shit to paper till I know the ending. Maybe Hollywood fuckers ought to try that instead of playing merry-go-round with peripheral, useless, unnecessary characters. Just a thought.
And why does Kevin Williamson always let TV BS interfere with his working for Craven? Doesn't he have enough money that he can just block out some time to focus on a Scream script out of, I don't know, loyalty to the man who made the best (and one of the worst; Hello, Cursed!) from his scripts? Craven's getting old. He's been making movies near 40 years. He can't keep up dealing with this shit forever.
Fuck, again? How many times has this happened with Craven in the last couple years? The last couple Scream's, Cursed…what's the deal? Is it really that hard for him to just shoot the scripts he's signed onto? On those previous gigs I was willing to accept that Craven got jerked around by the studio, but I think we've reached a point where these constant 'hiccups' on his sets can be laid at his feet.
Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why? How does Ehren Krueger keep getting work?! Honestly?
Blood and Chocolate, The Brothers Grimm, The Skeleton Key, The Ring Two, Impostor, Reindeer Games, Scream 3, Arlington Road…
HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?!
Shouldn't you internet reporters know anything about how movies are made? DO you think Kruger came in and was given carte blanche to do whatever he wanted…or was he given specific instructions? Maybe they said it needed to be shortened by 20 pages, or that there were too many important characters so there was no focus, who knows. So many movies have a three hour rough cut and that's insane, and then those scenes just get edited out anyway.
Arlington Road and The Ring are both badass. Ehren Kruger definitely has some skills. What I don't understand is all the rewriting on the set. Have you ever heard of these types of rewrites really benefitting the final product? Whenever you hear about these on-set polishes, the movies always feel as if they have been tampered with. Writing styles clash, character's dialect and cadence change, and scenes feel out-of-sort. The scripts should be sorted out before the cameras roll.
Here's what Lauren Graham said. "Wait, I have a hit TV show on NBC and still make a ton of royalty money from Gilmore Girls. Fuck this, I'm out." Notice, there were no pleas of having Santa fuck her in there.
moviemenace, if you like anything about The Ring, you can thank Scott Frank. As for Arlington Road: well, there's no accounting for taste. I thought it was a contrived piece of shit, but I dare you to come up another decent movie in his filmography. Oh, wait…I forgot about Reindeer Games.
SCREAM 4 was ruined the minute it was greenlit; the project was never anything more than a cynical cash grab. Is there anyone associated with the franchise who isn't in a career slump right now? Except Mr. Kruger, obviously.
No Lauren Graham? Well, there goes the only reason I had to see this movie.
Okay, since so many of you are clearly clueless as to how the biz works, let me spell it out for you. Rarely if ever is a screenwriter given carte blanche to deliver the script he/she wants, as is, no changes, alterations or substitutions. The ones that fuck it up for everyone involved are the producers and/or studio suits who have the power to bend the writer over a barrel (or desk) and demand that the rewrites go as dictated or it's sayonara sucker and show in the next desperate scribbler. To fault any one writer with asshole changes and logic-defying rewrites is to do no less than proclaim your astounding ignorance for how the process works. Are there hacks in the screenwriting business? You betcha. But again, you hafta take into consideration the many multiple modes of interference that go into a studio project. Everyone's got a fucking opinion and they're "obligated" to share it. And nine times out of ten, the screenwriter is therefore "obligated" to follow said dictates. Anyway, I'm running redundant, but you get the point. I hope.
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