Wes Craven signs up for new Scream trilogy

It has been a full ten years since Scream 3 hit the scene, can you believe it?  And with that special anniversary comes some exciting news: original director Wes Craven has signed up to direct a brand new trilogy that aims to redefine the horror genre yet again.  Dimension Films will back the movies and Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette are set to reprise their roles as Sid, Gale, and Dewey, respectively.  Though he couldn’t reveal Scream 4′s plot (it’s still being written!), Craven did shed some light on what we can expect:

There have been 10 years of no Ghostface, but there has been the movie-within-a-movie Stab. We have fun with the idea of endless sequels, or “sequelitis” as Kevin calls it in the script. Sid goes through these three horrendous things, and Stab was based on those horrible things. And then they’ve been taken by a studio and run into the ground in a series of sequels. She has been off by herself and living her own life, and she’s even written a book that has gotten a lot of critical acclaim. She’s kind of put her life back together in the course of these 10 years. But, certainly, there would be no Scream without Ghostface, so she has to confront him again, but now as a woman who has really come out the darkness of her past.

He also said we can expect the rated-R stamp and a classic Ghostface murder at the start of the film.  Where does the line start?

[Via EW-PopWatch]

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