Once, I think... at a sleepover when I was like 12.
VOICE (O.S.)
You live in Woodsboro and you don't know Stab?
TARA
It's not my thing. I mean talk about schlocky and cheeseball; isn't Tori Spelling the lead in most of them-?
VOICE (O.S.)
Your mother loves that movie. She talks about it all the time in group. How well do you remember the original?
Tara turns off the burner, gets a colander out of a cabinet.
TARA
I don't know, it was like super '90s. Really over-lit and everyone had weird hair.
VOICE (O.S.)
Do you remember the beginning?
TARA
Not really. It starts with a kill scene, right? They always start with a kill scene.
VOICE (O.S.)
That's right. It's a girl at home, alone. She answers a wrong number and starts talking with the killer, who makes her play a game. (pause)
Would you like to play a game, Tara?
TARA
Fuck you, you're weird.
She slams down the phone. Spooked. Texts Amber:
It was some psycho. I'm locking the doors.
Tara uses the SMARTHOUSE APP on her phone to lock all the doors of the house. They KA-CHUNK into place as the text comes back:
WTF??? You okay?
Tara starts writing back:
I'm fine, I just-
CUT OFF as the LANDLINE RINGS AGAIN, making Tara jump. She stares at it. It continues to trill. Fuck that.
A text sound from her phone. From Amber:
You should answer it.
Tara stares at her phone. Realizing something. She texts Amber back slowly:
How did you know my landline was ringing?
No response. Not even the dots. A bead of sweat runs down Tara's forehead. The landline continues to ring. Tara texts again, now fully freaked out:
Amber?
Tara stares at the screen. The response comes back:
This isn't Amber.
Tara stares at it. Numb. A new text comes:
But I enjoyed the picture you sent me.
Tara looks ill. She hugs herself, exposed. Starts to text back when this comes in:
ANSWER THE PHONE BITCH.
Tara goes to her phone app, begins dialing 911...
ANSWER THE PHONE OR AMBER DIES.
Tara stops dialing and snatches up the landline-
TARA (CONT'D)
This isn't fucking funny, Amber-
VOICE (O.S.)
I told you, this isn't Amber.
Incoming text sound. It's a link to a SNAPCHAT. Tara clicks on it. A window opens showing a VIDEO FEED --
YOU ARE READING
Original Scream (2022) Script
ActionI found this while I was doing a deep dive on the internet. It's the original script to the movie Scream (2022)- there are a LOT of differences from the one they decided on. TW / graphic depictions of violence.
The Script
Start from the beginning
