Scream 2
Cotton Weary ( Liev Schrieber ) run from a cameo inScreamto a chief part inScream 2 , and I ’m glad he did , because he ’s an awesome sprocket in the movie . I ’m also thankful the firstScream 2script got leaked because his original part was much less in force . IfScreamperfectly skewer the slasher genre while still being an efficaciously frightening horror moving picture on its own , Scream 2doesthe same for horror movie sequelsand manages to stand up well against the other films in the vaunted franchise .
Scream 2takes position a few years after the first flick , with Sidney Prescott ( Neve Campbell ) now a full - fledged college student . The Woodsboro butchery is now a joke at this point , with a metafictional motion picture , Stab , made about the murders . However , Ghostface is back with someone young under the maskand many of the fibre from the first film also return . This includes Cotton Weary , who eagle - eyed viewers will retrieve from his abbreviated cameo inScreamwhen he ’s on the news being wrongfully arrest for the murder of Maureen Prescott .
Cotton Weary Is A Fascinating Character In Scream 2
Weary Just Wants Some Kind Of Compensation For Being Wrongfully Accused
Cotton Weary is not who I expected to see reappear inScream 2after his small part in the first picture , but by the end of the movie , I was charmed he was there . AfterSidney wrongfully accuse him of murdering her mother , Cotton set out to get something out of the woe , ridicule , and hate he received from the public and medium . His idea ? Team up with Gale Weathers ( Courteney Cox ) to get an exclusive interview with Sidney about the slaying and Cotton ’s family relationship with Maureen , who he was having an affair with .
Matthew Lillard returned to Scream 2 for a nictation - and - you’ll - overlook - it cameo . But it is unconfirmed whether he was reprising the role of Stu Macher .
With anyone else , this would come off as a total slimeball move , but this is Liev Schreiber . Even when he ’s being menacing , there ’s still a appeal you ca n’t help but love . Furthermore , he has a point . Cotton spend a year in jail , and all he ’s basically asking for is a little recognition . It ’s a really fascinating fiber , and one not often shown in repugnance movies . Usually , in horror films , the corroborative damage from one film is forgotten about in the nextunless it involves a major fictional character .
Cotton was a huge dupe of the events inScream , so to see him front for indemnity inScream 2feels both sympathetic and naturalistic . Schreiber is also intimidating , so his presence alone makes it seem like he could be the sea wolf in this film . That ’s why I love it so much when he show up at the destruction to preserve Sidney from Debbie Loomis ( Nancy Loomis ) . Sure , he only shoots Debbie after Sidney promises she ’ll do an interview with him , but I wish to think that Cotton was just being cheeky , he was never blend in to permit Sidney die .
During the fraternity party sequence , Liev Schreiber ’s dog is on - screen , run out of the home after Ghostface kills Cici ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) ( viaDeadMeat ) .
It ’s a neat fist - pumping moment at the ending ofScream 2when Sidney tell the public press to verbalise to Cotton , eventually giving him the fame and closure he always wanted after the first motion picture . Searching for fame is a big topic inScreamand Cotton ’s search is a elbow room for him to deal with the trauma of being wrongfully imprisoned . The guy merit a win , so it makes me so well-chosen he gets to be a fighter and a adept at the same fourth dimension .
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The Scream 2 Script Was Changed After It Was Leaked On The Internet
Kevin Williamson Created Several “Dummy” Scripts
Those well - acquaint with theScreamfranchise will know thatScream 2was originally going to be much different . However , the script end up leak online , break the massive spin at the oddment of the moving-picture show . This has been debated over the year , with even screenwriter Kevin Williamson saying he purposefully leak dummy scripts to fool hoi polloi ( viaTHR ) ,
" There was such an interest in what was going on with Scream 2 that we wrote a dummy script and leaked it . And then we had a second dummy playscript that we also leak , but that one did n’t really get out too far . And then the literal one got out , but no one seemed to care by the metre the tangible one got out . "
However , that story is a small different from the one Wes Craven told soon after the leaks come about where he press out frustration with " sports fan " setting his moving picture schedule back for rescript ( viaDeadMeat ) ,
Scream 2 continues the saga of Sidney Prescott, who faces a new series of murders while adjusting to college life. Released in 1997, the film follows her as a masked killer, donning the infamous Ghostface costume, resurfaces, reigniting fear and chaos among her and her friends.
" All you little fkers out there that think that ’s really cute , you fking ruined our next three months . "
To add more muddiness , a writer forSlashFilm , Willima Bibbiani , revealed that he was one of the people to leak out theScream 2script in 1997 , and the script he translate was the one that had Cotton as a baddie and included a much more dramatic close ( viaSlashFilm ) . Bibbiani arrogate that the playscript he had was a dummy . So it ’s a flake unclear which dummy scripts Williamson is referring to and with so many revisions to the handwriting , many of which hap on set , it can be operose to parse what was meant to go in the motion-picture show and was lost , and what was n’t mean to at all .
Cotton Weary Had A Much Different (And Worse) Storyline In The Leaked Script
Weary Was Going To Be The Final Villain In The Leaked Script
The leak script I ’m concerned in talking about is the one leaked in 1997 that supposedly caused the whole moving-picture show to be rewritten , the one that some people claim was a dummy book . For my own sanity , because it ’s a lot more sport , and because I enjoy hearing Wes Craven curse like a plagiariser , for this exercise , I ’m going to regard that 1997Scream 2script the stand for , real script . In that leak script , Sidney ’s boyfriend , Derek ( Jerry O’Connell ) , is reveal to be the Orcinus orca , and he is aid by Hallie ( Elsie Neal ) , Sidney ’s best friend .
Talk about have no murder - radiolocation , Sidney . It would then be revealed that Nancy Loomis was the puppet captain behind everything . Then , Nancy would be killed and Cotton would appear , revealing himself to also be operate for Nancy , and he would assay to kill Sidney as revenge for being falsely accused of mutilate Sidney ’s female parent . They have a quarter out engagement and the film ends with them both stabbing one another and fall to the ground from the rafters . hollo 2ends with both characters slow closing their eye , their portion saved forScream 3 .
As much fun as it would be to have Liev Scheiber be a bigger part of the film , his villainy was telegraphed heavily throughout the movie , and it would have been a lame reveal for him to be a villain .
Hitchcock cry . you’re able to understand the entire script here for yourself : Scream . Fandom . Thank Craven we did n’t go with this version though . As much fun as it would be to have Liev Scheiber be a bigger part of the film , his villainy was telegraphed heavy throughout the film , and it would have been a crippled reveal for him to be a villain . A redemptive spark is just whatScream 2needs . Cotton is a much more interesting and complex character as someone who is trying to make out with the unfairness of his pastrather than another bloodthirsty human being out to on retaliation .
Liev Schreiber Having A Role In Scream 3 Was Good For The Franchise
Schreiber Ensured Scream Opening Sequences Remained Signature Scenes
All of this lease place well before Schreiber became theLiev Schreiber of the modern epoch . His biggest film up to that point was probablyThe Daytrippers . It ’s quite the coup that Wes Craven and fellowship managed to snag Schreiber for a cameo in the first moving picture and for him to go on to become a massive headliner . By not killing him off ( probably ) like in the leaked hand , it also meant thatCotton Weary could return for the beginning ofScream 3 in another of their signature opening sequences .
He get to bring together the ranks of famous actors who get kill atthe start ofScreammovies , formally cementing him in the enfranchisement and helping to elevateScreaminto a classic repulsion series thanks to its successful casting of notable actors or unknowns who go on to freehanded things . Kevin Williamson was write and producingDawson ’s Creekat the same clip as he was working onScream 2and flew back and forward to get them both done .
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Williamson ended up give birth to tread aside forScream 3to work onDawson ’s Creek , and he was disappointed that Cotton Weary died in the opening , saying ( viaCollider ) ,
" Yes , that was n’t my wishing . "
Respectfully disagree , Mr. Williamson , as with child a script asScream 2is . Dying in the porta of aScreamfilm , is there a greater honor that a revulsion movie can contribute on an thespian ? Methinks not .
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shrieking 2 continues the saga of Sidney Prescott , who faces a raw series of murders while adjusting to college life . Released in 1997 , the film follows her as a masked killer , donning the ill-famed Ghostface costume , resurfaces , reigniting reverence and chaos among her and her friends .
