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Scream 4

11/16/09 - Courteney Cox said 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. "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. "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."

8/5/09 – SCI FI Wire reported that Scream writer Kevin Williamson offered details about the proposed fourth installment he is writing, which he envisions as the beginning of a new trilogy of tongue-in-cheek horror films and which may feature original stars Courteney Cox and David Arquette.  "Oh, it's a new trilogy," Williamson said. "It's 10 years later. It is Gale Weathers 10 years later."  Cox played Weathers, the local reporter who became a sensation for covering the killings in the 1996 original.  Arquette played Deputy Dewey, and Williamson accidentally suggested where Dewey would be in Scream 4.  "Sheriff Dewey, I'm sorry, Deputy Dewey, oops," Williamson backpedaled. "It's Dewey and Gale, and that's it from the original cast. They met on the set. We all watched it happen, so the idea that we got 'em back and that their relationship is sort of the emotional core of Scream 4 ... so it'll be a lot of fun."  Williamson also plans to bring back the "ghost face" mask that every killer wore in the Scream films. "Yes, it will be, but there may be another one," he said.

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