https://movieweb.com/scream-vi-co-director-matt-bettinelli-olpin-discusses-the-changes-they-made/
Interesting article. I'm especially intrigued by them saying the motives changed. Because Richie and Amber's motives had nothing to do with Sidney. They wanted her there and got her there, but things still would've probably gone about the same had she not arrived.
Didn’t hurt the film with her not being in it, franchise has moved on, doesn’t need her. They should take this stance with the terminator franchise. Leave Arnold out of it
shareExcept when you have been the star focus for so many films and the whole story started out with you, it's kind of hard to just move on. Had these sequels started off with new characters and faces entirely then it's easier to swallow, but frankly both franchises did not need to go on as long as they did. Terminator should have ended after the third movie and Scream should have ended after the third movie too.
share'Terminator should have ended after the third movie and Scream should have ended after the third movie too.'
Definitely agree about Terminator. I kinda agree about Scream - although I did enjoy the fifth one. Haven't seen this one yet.
I did like that Terminator Salvation broke away from the formula and showed us the world after Judgement Day started, but I think the series was best off as a trilogy and ending where it began and showing the future could not really be changed after all of the attempts to do so. As for Scream, Scream 4 seemed lacking and came off mediocre. It had a nice angle with the whole remake thing, but could have been executed better. Scream 5 was just horrible. Too many characters, half of them didn't even need to be in the story, others should have had bigger roles, etc. just things I would have done differently. Billy Loomis having a daughter made no sense and we don't even journey with her to discover this, it's sort of thrown at us off the bat and we never even meet the mother. How is Sam even seeing a man she never even met. If anything, that should have been Sidney's arc where she hallucinates Billy as she actually saw him like that. Scream 6 was just slightly better than 5, but still a lackluster movie to me with its loads of issues and motives being silly.
shareI’m trully surprised that they kept Neve Campbell for so long. Its just - why? She has no screen presence, no charisma, she is boring to watch. Her acting is one note. There was a reason why her career went nowhere.
Yet they kept bringing her like she was some Star of the Franchise and it would die without her. While is was obviously that Ghost Face was always the star and they could bring new cast basically every movie. Which they finally found out when she was out of Scream 6 and it made same amount of money and those with her in it.
It was truly hilarious how she actually thought she was main draw and demanded more money. Then quit when not receiving one. Honey you are at the state of your career when your should beg them to write some cameo role for you. Courtney Cox knew it and was just happy to be there.
While I hate it, I see your point. Especially regarding Ghost Face. At this point definitely more interested in the identity and motive of the killers than how it relates back to Sidney yet again. By now even the killers relate it back to her only because they're supposed to.
I think that, because Scream is all about prior tropes, they were hung up on keeping their final girl. She was absolutely necessary for the first four, though even in 3 she had a diminished presence. 5 was of course better because of her, but in killing Dewey, was totally prepared to go without her.
They brought her back because it was HER story. It started with her mother getting killed for having an affair and then carried over when the mother of the man she murdered wanted revenge and then Cotton Weary wanting answers. Then you have her in 3 to give backstory on Maureen, though the whole half brother thing did not need to be there at all and we got little time to invest in it as they killed Roman quickly after that revelation. Scream 4 obviously needed her because you had this relative that felt overshadowed by her. I mean, this was always Sidney's story and progression. It was never something that could or needed to be just some new batch of characters like what they are trying to do now which is silly because all these Ghostfaces this far into the timeline is just ridiculous now. What started off as something to trouble Sidney which frankly had its end with the third movie became just a recurring gag for anyone to do for the sake of doing it.
shareThe movie worked fine without her. How many times can you pit her against Ghostface?
shareThat's what I thought. She wasn't needed in this movie. Also, it's years later and she's a wife and mother. It would have been terrribly foolish for Sidney to put herself in such danger needlessly.
And on a practical note, how many times do we need to hear Neve Campbell scream, "F*ck YOU!" to the latest Ghostface?