Shocktilyoudrop posted the article below earlier today. What do you guys think about it? Cotton was killed off in Scream 3 so I dont know how they’d be able to bring him back unless it was some kind of dream/imaginary situation? Although,would be good to see another of the original cast members in the next installment of the film!

Kevin Williamson, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette have all been confirmed to return for Scream 4 (don’t forget, Wes Craven recently stated he’s not locked for the director’s chair). How about Liev Schreiber? Wrongly accused Cotton Weary of the first two Scream entries?

Sure, he died in the third film, but that hasn’t stopped the Scream franchise from resurrecting the dead in some form or another.

Out promoting Repo Men, which he stars in alongside Jude Law and Forest Whitaker, Schreiber told our own Ed Douglas this afternoon that, to be honest, he doesn’t know if he’ll be involved in the fourth Scream. An anticlimactic answer, no doubt. But an answer for you Scream purists out there eager for the next entry…

Last week was a mad flurry of excitement over the announcement, via the L.A. Times, that Scream 4 was gearing up to shoot in May. Turns out it was a load of old cobblers. Will this counter-news derail the start date or is Craven playing with us like a serial killer with a victim? Or failing that – he’s giving us the lowdown on what’s happening with it all. The godfather of modern horror made his own announcement via Twitter:

“SCREAM 4 – LA Times has it wrong. I’m still in talks but nothing has been finalized.”

Scream 4 looks set to reunite the surviving members of the cast and is set back in the town of Woodsboro, where it all began. Courtney Cox-Arquette, husband David, Neve Campbell have confirmed they’ll be back for more gore and Scooby-Doo like shenanigans, and even better, Kevin Williamson has written the script. If you recall he walked after Scream 2, leaving Ehren Kruger to finish off with the lacklustre Scream 3. Whether Scream 4 actually happens with Craven remains to be seen. It would be madness for another director to take this on.

Craven has another horror film coming out this year with My Soul To Take. So there you have it, folks. Expect an announcement on Craven’s position soon…ish.

In a recent article by the  LA Times Blog, it was revealed that legendary horror director Wes Craven will return to direct the next installment of the ‘Scream’ franchise.

The piece was a look back at Craven’s career, where he talked about his beginnings in horror and the creation of such classic films as ‘Last House On The Left’, ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ and ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’.

At the end of the article it mentions that shooting for ‘Scream 4? begins in May and Craven will once again find himself behind the camera.

Kevin Williamson has written the script for Scream 4, which is intended to become a new trilogy, and Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette are set to return.

Craven’s latest outing, My Soul To Take, is due out later this year.

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The promise of a new Scream trilogy has a lot of fans buzzing as like it or not, the franchise totally revitalized the tired slasher subgenre in the 1990’s. It seems that every so often we get a little more news on the upcoming Scream 4 to entice us further. Ready for the latest? Read on!

In an interview with IESB Williamson dropped the following:

“I’m almost done with the first draft of Scream 4,” he tells the site. “I’m trying to get that together for Wes Craven. We’ve got to get going on that, during the [Vampire Diaries] hiatus. We have Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and Dave Arquette. I was always holding out hope because the pitch was about those three characters. I didn’t want to have to re-route the whole story. We don’t have to do that. I can do it exactly the way I wanted. The story is going to be told the way I originally conceived it.”

As for who will be picking up the knife as Ghostface:

“Well, that’s the whole point of the movie. What I have always liked about this movie versus other horror films is that I feel like there are characters. In other horror movies you remember Michael Meyers and you remember Jason. In our film I think you remember Sydney Prescott because Sydney Prescott’s the victim and she has lasted for all three of these movies. The fun of the film is that it’s Sydney Prescott. That’s the difference, and you care about her. I want to write a story where you actually care about our characters and it’s a plot that you watch them walk through. It’s not all about the next kill. It’s not all about slice and dice. I was watching Saw VI on pay-per-view the other night, and I was like, ‘This is really just going from one kill to the next to the next.’ It’s fun, but I want to tell a story.”

During the interview Williamson also verifies he’s confirmed for Scream 4 and Scream 5 but is still in negotiations for Scream 6. Hit up the link for the entire interview.

Scream 4 Synopsis
The horror series that reignited the genre and grossed more than $500 million worldwide is back! From Kevin Williamson, creator of the original Scream trilogy, the new film sees the return of cast members Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette along with a group of new stars, who can all hopefully stay alive long enough to figure out the new rules to this one-of-a-kind horror franchise!

In a recent interview with Blackbook magazine,Neve Campbell makes a short mention of Courteney and returning for Scream 4

So you don’t think you are in any danger of becoming the next Jamie Lee Curtis of the shock-horror world?
Being the next Jamie would be fine! (laughs) In fact, we start shooting Scream 4 in mid-April. I’m so happy that those of us still “alive” from 1, 2 and 3 like David (Arquette) and Courtney (Cox) have already signed up to take part.

Did you all stay in touch after the trilogy had wrapped?
Oh, yes. Completely. I haven’t spoken to them in a while. I’m sure it took a while to convince them to take part [in the picture], especially because they’re now a very happy family ,and of course, it was a long journey for them. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun, and a lot like going back to summer camp.

Courteney Cox isn’t done running from masked serial killers.

The 45-year-old “Cougar Town” and “Friends” star says she’s excited about returning to the horror genre in “Scream 4,” the upcoming slasher sequel being written by Kevin Williamson, who wrote the first two films in the popular horror trilogy. Cox met her husband, 38-year-old actor David Arquette, on the set of the first “Scream” film in 1996.

“There are really only a few of us that survived,” says Cox.

Cox and Arquette will reprise their roles as overzealous reporter Gale Weathers and bumbling sheriff Dwight “Dewey” Riley in the fourth installment, along with 36-year-old actress Neve Campbell, who starred as the series’ heroine, Sidney Prescott. Cox shrugged off rumors that Weathers and Dewey would be killed off at the beginning of the film.

“They’re probably back living in Woodsboro,” Cox said referring to the small California town that was the setting of the first film. “I think that he’s probably still deputy, and I’ve had a lot of kids. I don’t know. I’m probably miserable, and then I’m sure a lot of murdering will happen.”

In a morning report about the 2009 American Film Market – which was admittedly glum last year but is now seeing a silver lining – Screen Daily says The Weinstein Company’s Scream 4 has been a hit in the marketplace with buyers “flocking” to the title. This is even before Kevin Williamson has even turned in a draft of the script . Early buzz in the marketplace could spell good things for Dimension Films which has had a sluggish 2009. It might even prompt the Weinsteins to move a little faster to lock down a director. Wes Craven is being courted to return, but he wants to see a script first.

The horror series that reignited the genre and gross[ed] more than $500 million worldwide is back! From Kevin Williamson, creator of the original Scream trilogy, the new film sees the return of cast members Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette, along with a group of new stars, who can all hopefully stay alive long enough to figure out the new rules to this one-of-a-kind horror franchise!

The synopsis agrees with the Scream 4 details Williamson revealed to MTV. The fourth one is an ensemble. It’ll take place right now, 10 years later, and it’s going to take place in [Sidney Prescott's hometown of] Woodsboro.

Revealing previously undisclosed details for ‘Scream’ fans — there will, at last, be a ‘Scream 4′ and then a ‘Scream 5′ — writer Kevin Williamson might as well have compared himself to a slightly maniacal tightrope walker. That is, a tightrope walker who’d grab hold of the balance bar and suddenly wield it as a weapon, furiously gashing unsuspecting spectators while making so many semi-obscure movie references that you’d need an encyclopedia to actually follow them all.

Williamson, late of writing TV’s ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ told MTV News that three original ‘Scream’ stars — Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette — have signed to reprise their roles once more in the brilliant and self-referential slasher franchise. Both sequels will be set in the present, and a new ensemble of actors is currently being recruited for acting support. Action will still occur in mythical Woodsboro, though Campbell’s high school character, Sidney, is presumably a little older now.

Hardest to do, Williamson admitted, is balancing the meta-ness of ‘Scream’ with its seemingly limitless references to all things horror-cinematic, with a sufficiently gruesome storyline that will scare the daylights out of everyone all over again.

“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,” he said, apparently not aware of just how gruesome that image actually is. “I’m going to make that very apparent in the dialogue.”

Meantime, Woodsboro citizens: Be afraid! Be very afraid.

The American Film Market is currently running in Santa Monica this week, which means we’ll probably be seeing lots of news and photos and posters over the next few days. ShockTillYouDrop got their hands on the very first teaser poster for Scream 4, which Dimension Films is currently readying to shoot next year. Most of this early artwork is just created to get investors and to sell the movie internationally, but it’s still cool to see how they’re selling it. In addition, screenwriter Kevin Williamson talked with MTV about the plot of the fourth film and where it’s going in this trilogy. If you’re a fan of the Scream series, then keep reading!

Before we get to the official synopsis found with the poster at AFM, let’s hear what Williamson had to say about Scream 4 and what he’s been writing, since we know very little about the actual plot. From MTV:

“The fourth one is an ensemble. 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.”

We already know that Courteney Cox, Neve Campbell, and David Arquette are all set to return, but beyond that, they haven’t even chose a director. We reported in October that Dimension was supposedly close to getting Wes Craven back to direct Scream 4, but even the AFM material doesn’t list a director, so it sounds like they haven’t figured all of that out yet. Here’s what the AFM promo material did say about Scream 4:

“The horror series that reignited the genre and gross more than $500 million worldwide is back! From Kevin Williamson, creator of the original Scream trilogy, the new film sees the return of cast members Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette, along with a group of new stars, who can all hopefully stay alive long enough to figure out the new rules to this one-of-a-kind horror franchise!”

Not only does the poster (seen below) say “new rules” but so does that description. So what new rules has Williamson come up with? I’m not the biggest fan of the Scream series, so I’m wondering what the rules of the original three movies were (I’m sure someone will answer that for me in the comments below), but now I’m a bit curious to know how they’re different this time. Can the killer not wear the same mask? Or can he only kill certain people? I doubt they’d have the killer wear a different mask, since it’s such an iconic part of this series, but what else big could they change? We’ll keep you updated, but only if you care to hear more!