Anthony Anderson And Marielle Jaffe Join Scream 4
Anthony AndersonandMarielle Jaffehave joined the ever-growing cast ofWes Craven’s horror sequelScream 4. The news was buried in a recentEWpiece on Lauren Graham’s casting. No word on what new characters they will play, but we have speculation after the jump.
Anderson has played a cop on Law and Order and The Shield, so I’m guessing he plays one of the two detective roles:
20-year-old California model turned actress Jaffe likely plays one of the new teens:
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The first part of a new trilogy written by screenwriterKevin Williamsonand directed byWes Craven.
Neve Campbell, Courtney CoxandDavid Arquettehave all previously committed to reprise their respective roles in the fourth film.
The movie will be set ten years later in Woodsboro, and is described as “an ensemble” which will introduce several new characters. Craven toldEWthat the new film will take place a decade later, a decade without the ghostface killer. But that doesn’t mean that movie-within-the-movie-seriesStabhas come to an end.
“We have fun with the idea of endless sequels, or “sequelitis” as Kevin calls it in the script. Sid goes through these three horrendous things, and Stab was based on those horrible things. And then they’ve been taken by a studio and run into the ground in a series of sequels. She has been off by herself and living her own life, and she’s even written a book that has gotten a lot of critical acclaim. She’s kind of put her life back together in the course of these 10 years. But, certainly, there would be no Scream without Ghostface, so she has to confront him again, but now as a woman who has really come out the darkness of her past.” … “This is a film about the progress of, at this point, three core characters, and how all of these events have changed their lives, and how the events in their lives have been reflected in the movies around them, which they might like or might really not like at all. I think that makes it really different.”
I still think the Stab series has been played out and the meta actors-playing-characters got old pretty fast. I hope the new film will move away from those meta elements of the last two movies. Williamsonhas saidthatScream 4will reference manga comics, Asian ghost girl movies, PG-13 horror movies, vampire films, M. Night Shyamalan movies and even torture porn. Scream 4 will begin shooting in Michigan in June 2010, aiming for a April 15th 2011 release.
Here is information on the new characters in the new movie Beware of possible minor spoilers. You could assume things about the characters that list “NAME CAMEOS PREFERRED” judging from the previous films in the series.
