We're looking through a BEDROOM WINDOW. A TEENAGE GIRL sits at her desk, doing her homework, her back to us.
This is AMBER (18). A person in a GHOSTFACE costume angles the phone so he's in frame. Just outside Amber's window.
VOICE (O.S.) (CONT'D) Amber's looking particularly fetching tonight. She really shouldn't leave her phone lying around for anyone to pick up.
TARA
What do you want?
She goes back to the phone app, dialing 911 again...
VOICE (O.S.)
I already told you, I want to play a game. Stab movie trivia. Three rounds. You call the cops, she dies. You get a question wrong, she dies.
911 punched in, Tara's finger hovers above the "call" icon...
VOICE (O.S.) (CONT'D) Her parents aren't home. I can be in that room in 15 seconds.
We see Ghostface hold up a knife in front of the camera on the Snapchat. It glints in the moonlight.
On Tara. Her face crumples. She closes the phone app.
VOICE (O.S.) (CONT'D) You want a warm up question?
TARA
I told you, I don't know those movies! Ask me about something else, ask me about It Follows, or Hereditary, or The Witch-
VOICE (O.S.)
In the first Stab movie, what Woodsboro native was introduced as the franchise's main character?
Tara's eyes go wide, she knows this one.
TARA
Sidney Prescott! It's Sidney Prescott, right?
Correct. See, you're gonna do great at this. Okay, Question 1-
TARA
No, that should count! I got that one right!
VOICE (O.S.)
Anyone would have gotten that one right, Sidney's in every movie but the last one. Question 1: Who wrote the original book that the Stab movies are based on?
TARA
That's... that's... the chick from TV...
VOICE (O.S.)
"The chick from TV" is not gonna cut it, Tara.
TARA
Gale Weathers! It's Gale Weathers, motherfucker!
VOICE (O.S.)
Correct! Amber might live to see the sunrise! Question 2: Who played the dumb bitch in the beginning of Stab 1 who answers the phone and gets carved up by the killer?
Fuck. Tara doesn't know. On her face, struggling with it...
TARA Fuck you!
VOICE (O.S.) Is that the answer you're going with?
TARA
(near tears)
I told you, I don't know these movies! They're stupid '90s retro bullshit, nobody gives a shit about slashers anymore, that's why they stopped making them!
I'm gonna need an answer. Or do you want to watch me open up your girlfriend's stomach?
Tara looks down at the Snapchat link to Amber, desperate... And then realizes she's looking at her PHONE.
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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
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