When SCREAM 4 hit theaters, the box office results were not what director Wes Craven and producer Bob Weinstein had hoped for. The film made around $97,037,610 worldwide, but it made about $2 million less than the domestic gross. About five months later, director Wes Craven said that SCREAM 5 will more than likely happen. It's sad to say that Craven may not be directing this one.
When Movieweb asked Wes Craven if SCREAM 5 was on it's way, he said:
“Yes. The odds are that there will be . It is something that Bob Weinstein wants to do. He tends to do what he wants to do. So I am inclined to think that there will be . Whether I will be a part of it or not? I don’t know. My contract gives me the first look. If they show me something that is really wonderful? Of course I will be a part of it.”
When he was asked about his plans for SCREAM 5, Craven said the following-
“I’d have to kill you if I told you. Its better to have an ending where you can’t tell where it’s going to go next. Than to have an ending where you go, ‘Oh, that is the hook for the sequel. That is the hook for the next one.’ We felt it was better to let the audience speculate than to have all of these clues placed in their lap. It’s not a matter of not being smart enough . We’re clever at this. Let’s just put it that way.”
This was what Wes Craven had to say about how the films were concocted-
“Most people think that I t around and think up
ideas, then I send them to the studio. With Scream, that is not the case. Kevin Williamson has been the writer nce day one. He has been the writer on all of these projects, at least at the beginning of them. That relationship with him and Bob Weinstein is very old, and close. Typically what will happen is that Bob Weinstein or Kevin Williamson will come up with a new idea, and they will pitch it to one or the other. If they both like it, they will toss it around and see if they can develop it into an overarching concept. Then I get the telephone call. They say, ‘We have something to show you.’ It will either be a scene, or if it is Kevin Williamson, he will run through the idea with me from beginning to end. That is what happened on this one. There were a few pages. Not many. At some point there was a first draft. But it mainly started with me and Kevin Williamson tting down in a restaurant in Los Angeles. He showed me how it would go, and I really thought he had something there. So I gned on. Before that point, I am at a potion where I don’t want to be involved with something until the script is there. That makes me not a part of the original process, of banging out the idea. I think that Kevin Williamson is the best at that. And Bob Weinstein is all over that too. I don’t want to play another guy in that. Going into , the first meeting I had with Kevin Williamson, he did sketch out a Scream 5 and 6. The idea was that we were doing the first in a new trilogy. We had to wait to see if we made enough money on each film to make the next one viable. If that happens, those two will come up with the concepts and an idea that is worth fulfilling.”
It's fascinating to hear about the relationship between Kevin Williamson and Bob Weinstein, condering the friction they had on the set of SCREAM 4. Will Kevin Williamson be up for the second SCREAM trilogy?
'Despite its less-than-impresve box office take, Scream 4 was a fun, tongue-in-cheek – to the point of self-parody – horror flick.' SCREAM had a lot of clever, funny, and creative ideas throughout this installment. SCREAM 4 was just as good or better than SCREAM 2 and 3.
This writer will welcome SCREAM 5, if it will be as entertaining as SCREAM 4.
How do you, horror fans feel about a SCREAM 5? I think this would be good, a way to expand the SCREAM trilogy and to discover what lies within the future sequels.
SOURCE:screenrant.com, boxofficemojo