Christine CaruanaScream 4...?
April 7th 2010 10:46
But now, Dimension Films have said they want to continue the Scream franchise and Wes Craven has agreed to it. Even the original actors, Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox Arquette will be coming back to Scream 4.
It is almost what, a decade since Scream 3 was released? What possible reason could Dimension want to continue with the franchise now? Well, it's simple. The money! The first Scream movies would have raked in loads of cash for Dimension FIlms, so why not bring it back now, see if the franchise still has it.
I have to admit, I'm a little dissappointed with Wes Craven for going along with the idea. Now don't get me wrong here, I loved Scream and when I saw Scream 2, I loved that as well. But lets be honest, Scream 3 wasn't anything great. By the third movie it had lost something. I think it happens to most movies. The appeal is lost by the third movie. You can try and revive it with a 4th and 5th and 6th and so on, but it usually doesn't work. Look at Final Destination, the third one was horrible and then they released The Final Destination, which didn't help much at all. Even A Nightmare on Elm Street, went through the same fate. Though, I would say the worst Nightmare on Elm Street movie would have been the second. Took a really odd turn with that one. Then in 1995, Wes Craven came out with Wes Craven's A New Nightmare, in an attempt to revive the Freddy franchise. Now I will admit, I thought this movie was really well done, despite coming out several years after the last one. What really killed A Nightmare on Elm Street, was Freddy vs Jason, there's a movie that we could have done without.
But I digress, the point I'm making is, maybe directors, film companies, writers, need to just let things die. Run their natural course and end. Attempt to come up with a new idea, something even better than what they had in the past. I just don't understand why, if a movie franchise has been dormant for over a decade, why bring it back now? Scream 4 is going to come out so beyond it's time that it won't be anything like the others and will feel more like a complete seperate entity. I must say though, I am happy at least they it's going to be a sequal and not a remake of the first Scream. How I can't stand remakes!
I know the film companies are trying to make money, everyone is, but they should realise that, though not by much, Scream 3 did not do as well as Scream 1 and 2. Don't they think a pattern may be forming?
They may be on to something though. I mean with a new audience and target market, much of the younger kids probably haven't even seen Scream 1 or 2, so they'll watch it with no preconceptions at all. But the older audience will know. And if I'm correct, many of us won't like it.
My only hope is that they end at 4 and don't drag it out longer than this...
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