Does Sidney Die In Scream 4 - Possible Spoilers?
SCREAM 4 scribe, Kevin Williamson, talked with the New York Post today and he possibly revealed HUGE news concerning Neve Campbell's character, Sidney Prescott. Williamson told fans months ago that he was working on a sequel to the SCREAM trilogy. David Arquette and Courtney Cox are back and Wes Craven is close to returning to the director's chair but the X factor (aka Neve) took a while to sign and this could be the reason why....
Follow up:
When the Post talked with Williamson about the next three "Scream" movies Kevin revealed Sidney might not survive to see the end credits.
"The thing about 'Scream 4' is that there are a lot of twists and turns, so I can't promise anything," he told PopWrap about Sidney's role in the fourth film now that Neve will return. "There are a lot of moving pieces, so we'll see -- but if you're a 'Scream' fan, I think you're really going to like it."
So let's do a little speculating just for fun. After all the jostling and deals that were finally struck to bring Campbell back on board, what better way to give the franchise the jolt it needs than to have Sidney die off in the opening scene! Much like killing off Drew Berrymore's character in the original, the death of Sydney Prescott will not only surprise audience expectations but allow the series to continue without being tied down to the original trilogy that frankly wore out its welcome. So maybe horror fans get Neve back, Scream fans can accept the story, Kevin Williamson gets to write her in and she makes an impact in the series that will hopefully allow for 2 more movies to feed off of. Will it work? Do you think Williamson was alluding to Sidney untimely demise? Time will tell but it certainty sounds plausible. What do you guys think?
Source: New York Post


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Just my opinion... Sidney is a huge part of why I like the franchise. It always has some twisted back story to her and why the killings are happening. Sidney's back story is always the major motive in the films. It all started because of her. It should all end because of her. Thats just how I feel... There's plenty of other shit they could do to involve more people and bring more than one starring role to the film besides Sidney.
Ehhhhh... I'm a huge Wes fan, but damnit if he does something this stupid... Well then I geuss it's one of the few mistakes he's made.
I hope this doesnt happen...
--Ryan
Why not bring back the Original 2 killers Billy and Stew??? Maybe have the audience geussing who the killer/killers are the whole way to the end, Shock them with having REAL ghosts inside the Ghost costumes??? The ghost of Billy and Stew... OR something completely crazy like that... Isn't that how they do sequels once you get so far into the franchise, something crazy like that happens. Just look at Jason for example. In part 1 he was a little boy. In part 2 he was grown up, in part 3 he earned the hockey mask. In part 4 things were still legit. He basically looked like he did in part 3 and things still remained classic and then in Part 5 BAM. It isn't even Jason. It was Roy... Completely crazy, but the movie was still great!
Here's another example, Jaws 1 Fantastic movie. Jaws 2 Fantastic movie. Jaws 3 BAM Sea World... WTF? Completely crazy. BUT it was still a great movie... At least I think so...
It's just a way to keep things basically the same, but mix it up in another way that is not so gay like killing Sidney off in the first 5 minutes of the movie. Or just killing her off in period.
Killing her off is just a terrible mistake in my eyes...
--Ryan
Sidney needs to die because... after surviving 3 scenarios where all her friends die and/or try to kill her, shes got to either get killed, kill herself or get thrown in a padded room. Its a long time coming.
That being said...
Ryan, please dont ever make a horror movie. Thank you.
Love and kisses.
Personally I always thought after the first movie where Billy was the killer, then the second where Billys mother was the killer that in the third film the FATHER would seek revenge ... that would have been a neat story line ... all in the family. I thought the twist with the long lost bastard brother was kinda fuckin stupid ... so perhaps Mr. Loomis will go nuts and try to find Syd.
For her to survive I do agree though with Ron as well ... she's got to end up in a padded cell by the end... you could see the signs of duress in her character in part 3. She was ready to crack then ... she WAS in the process of cracking ... total realism for just a moment ... This woman has had a HORRIBLE life ...
OR the extreme twist ... that she has finally just lost it and she herself is the killer.
All plausible and all would be an enjoyable rebirth to an awesome movie, i think... what do you guys think?
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sidney is the main character, she should not be killed off. The whole franchise is about her! And I think randy should at least have a cameo like he did in 'scream 3', although it might be impossible haha.
i think she should die in the end face-to-face with the killer, and they should go down together, whoever this killer may be.
because i agree with the others, this franchise was built on sydney's story, and they shouldn't just start making other stories which would either be pointless or they're just trying to milk it for more then it's worth.
Also, I do not think that Sydney should die, not at least till the last movie. People will lose interest in the movies yet to come.
I also read one of the scripts, and I have reason to believe there will be 3...count it, 3 killers. I'm not going into any details but what I gathered from the script makes it impossible for a single or 2 killers.
On another note, I hear Randy(or some form of Randy) is coming back. This means great news for all you Randy fans.
Can't wait to see the movie(s):)
i want scream 4 to surprise us not disappoint us by killing sidney. i want to see a stronger sidney now. a braver one much like jamie lee curtis in holloween H20. i want to see her go out and kick the killer's ass. be tomb raider kick ass kinda character. but still fragile in a way.
no ghosts or anything supernatural please.
I think that there are 2 killers in this movie, but the twist is that 1 of the killers was in the 3rd one. I feel that Billy's father learned who helped his son and Stu out to kill people, as well as having his wife involved with him. He is out for revenge. He contacted Roman and they were partners. The other killer is going to be either the cousion of Sidney or Dewey. I say Dewey because after all of thses years living close with Sidney, the girl basically responsible for your little sisters dath. This will eventually hurt his relationship with Gail and they will be divorced. Gail writes another book and is mega famous again and becomes an anchorwoman for Woodsboro News.
Dewey is pissed at everything and finally ceosses paths with Billy's dad and they plan for 2 years how to kill them all once and for all. (2 years because Dewey will divorce Gail after 8 years of marriage).
-then again, my opinan is DONT KILL HER OFF, like the whole Story is ABOUT HER....like others have said, dont do a HALLOWEEN RESURECTION and kill jaimie lee curtis off in opening scene. It makes the rest lame. Every killer can't not kill sidney for 3 years, and then ten years later, someone who might not be connected to her kill her straight away, it would ruin all the original movies. JUST DONT KILL SYDNEY OFF!!!!!
Also, I could really see Gale being the killer. She'll probably "die" in this one only to reveal she survived (somehow...they could do it) and try to kill off sid in the end. Truth be told, the scream franchise is based on sid, you have to admit it. Could you imagine the halloweens without Jamie Lee Curtis. Granted most of them did have her in the movie, but she still survived and H20 would never have been made!
I'd like to see where they go with it.
However in this day and age and lets rush it out hollywood movies it will probably end up being a rubbish ending and all the originals being killed off just so that they can milk it for all its worth for the next couple of scream movies.
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