On the occasion of the very first broadcast of Scream’s 5th opus, only 6 months after its cinema release, CANAL+ shines the light on Ghostface all week from August 22. Discover 5 well-kept secrets about the iconic franchise.
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Notice to fans of Scream : CANAL+ has concocted a program that has everything to make you scream with pleasure. From this Monday, August 22 and throughout the week, live your evenings in the company of Ghostface with the broadcast of a film from the saga by prime-time on CANAL + Cinema. On Friday August 26, you will be able to discover the 5th part, only 6 months after its theatrical release.
If you are more of the marathon runner type, you will be won over since the integral will be broadcast on the night of August 27. Tailor-made programming for a symbol of the big screen that we think we know like the back of our hand. And yet, Scream surely still has a few secrets to reveal to you… the proof with these 5 anecdotes.
Scream: from Drew Barrymore to Neve Campbell
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At the time, the role was indeed to be held by… Drew Barrymore ! If she refused this offer for reasons of planning, the actress revealed in ET was still chosen to lend her features to the first victim of the serial killer. She then pointed out to Wes Craven that to make her die at the very beginning of the feature film was an excellent idea, allowing to install in the mind of the public that in Scream, anything can happen!
Where Drew Barrymore must have less appreciated the imagination of the director, it is surely when this one used the involvement of the actress in the animal cause in order to increase his emotions tenfold on the screen. He would have told her stories of abused animals to make her scream as much as possible during this opening scene that has become cult.
Scream 2: spoiler hunt
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And to avoid any other risk of disclosure, the screenwriter waited until the last week of filming to communicate to the actors the final ten pages. The cast of Scream 2 therefore embarked on the project without knowing the outcome of the story and the identity of the killer.
Scream 3: never two without three
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Never short of ideas, Wes Craven shot 3 different final sequences, without telling the actors which one was going to be used. The technical team and the entire cast therefore discovered the film as we know it for the first time during the preview.
Scream 4: Kristen Stewart’s refusal
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Despite her love for Scream, the one who is at the time on the rise thanks to Twilight declines the invitation to interpret the young woman who is killed at the beginning of the film. And this for a very specific reason: the shadow of Drew Barrymore’s stage. “I was like, ‘I can’t do Drew again, I can’t touch this.’ Do you see what I mean?” she confided in an interview with Slay. An opinion that must have made its way into the mind of Wes Craven, since the opening of this 4th part has been redesigned so as not to be centered on a single murder.
Scream: back to the origins
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A true sequel, and not a remake or spin-off, the feature film is called “Scream” and not “Scream 5”, in order to mark a renewal in continuity. “I just think we took the 5 out and it works to just call it Scream because it’s like a brand new movie,” the screenwriter explains. Kevin Williamson. There’s the original cast, and the way it blends into this new universe with this new generation and this new cast is joyful.”
The directors have also preferred old methods to digital, favoring the magic of make-up. “There’s bound to be some excitement when the make-up team arrives on set with buckets full of blood. It feeds the general effervescence, to observe this artisanal work.”