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» Tuesday October 26, 2010 - 12:11 pm
Scream Cast Reunited In Entertainment Weekly
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Entertainment Weekly, we gathered classic TV and movie casts for the ULTIMATE POP culture get-together. Classic Casts include: Scream, Lord of the Rings, and Back to the Future.
SCREAM
The stars of Scream— David Arquette, Courteney Cox, and Neve Campbell— had a good reason to get back together for EW's Reunions photo shoot on July 20: They were already together in Ann Arbor, Mich., filming the highly anticipated fourth film in the hit slasher franchise. Scream 4, due in theaters April 15 finds sheriff Dewey (Arquette), former tabloid newshound Gale (Cox), and newly published author Sidney (Campbell) once again targeted by the knife-wielding Ghostface. "For years now, it's always been 'When are you guys gonna do another one?' " says Campbell, 37. "And I'd say, 'No, no.' And here we are!" Adds director Wes Craven, "There's a lot of friendships made and a marriage or two—and probably even a divorce or two—so it's kind of a homecoming." Craven's words proved especially bittersweet months later when, on Oct. 11, Arquette and Cox—who met on the first film—announced their separation after 11 years of marriage. The pair said in a statement, "We remain best friends and responsible parents to our daughter and we still love each other deeply."
Their unexpected split is the latest surprise in the storied saga of the Scream franchise. The original movie opened to just $6.4 million when it hit theaters in December 1996, but it became a word-of mouth sensation that ended up with a $103 million haul at the box office. Scream 2 and 3 were released in 1997 and 2000, and helped push the trilogy to almost $300 million domestically and achieve a cultlike status with horror enthusiasts. Cox, 46, best known at the time of the first film's release for playing good girl Monica on Friends, relished getting a role with a bit more bite. "I think Scream showed people a different side of me," she says. "I remember [director] Wes Craven thinking I couldn't be mean enough. I was like, 'Dude, I'm not actually that nice. I can be mean!' " Still, she's a real softy when it comes to her relationship with Campbell. "For some reason I feel closer to her during this movie than the first one," says Cox. "We're older and we have more in common, maybe. I don't know what it is. But I've fallen in love with her." Arquette, 39, says that good vibes have been pretty universal on set. "We've kind of grown up together in a way. A lot of the crew have been on the whole run."
For a SNEAK PEEK on the set of Scream 4, check out this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly or go to EW.com
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
What do you think about when you think about The Lord of the Rings? A few guesses: Gandalf staring down a fiery Balrog and proclaiming, "You shall not pass!" Legolas firing arrows as he surfs on his shield down the trunk of an Oliphaunt. Sam carrying Frodo to the top of Mount Doom, though he himself barely has the energy to stand. (Sam, if you really think about it, is the coolest character in the movies.) Aragorn being crowned king, then turning to Frodo, Sam, Merry, and
Pippin, who have lowered their heads reverently, and telling them, "My friends, you bow to no one." (Aragorn, if you really think about it, is the coolest character in the movies.)
Those are all great scenes, moments of self-sacrifice and unexpected heroism, which are the twin strands of the trilogy's DNA. But when the people who actually made The Lord of the Rings think about The Lord of the Rings—and we asked a dozen of them, as they hugged and caught up for the first time in years at photo shoots in Los Angeles, London, and Sydney—they don't think about any of those scenes. They remember New Zealand, and the most exhausting, exhilarating years of their lives.
They remember surfing; getting tattoos; watching Jackson, on Guy Fawkes Day, run around with fireworks like a giddy kid; going to barbecues at Billy Boyd's (Pippin) house; hanging around in the demented social club that was the makeup trailer; and having the occasional romance in the seaside city of Wellington ("I do remember some local ladies, yes," says Boyd).
Jackson remembers shooting on the side of a volcano in a nature preserve where they had to lay down carpet to protect a rare moss: "A carpeted volcano," says the director. "I mean, that was bizarre." Orlando Bloom (Legolas) remembers getting a mohawk just because Liv Tyler (Arwen) told him to: "She goes, 'Orly, you should have a mohawk. You'd look really cute.' It was Liv Tyler telling me to get a mohawk! I was like, 'I'll have a mohawk, please!' "
BACK TO THE FUTURE
It's hard to believe it's been 25 years since Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) first leaped into that plutonium-powered DeLorean and time-traveled back to 1955. But on this rainy October day in New York City, Fox and his Back to the Future costar Lea Thompson, who played Marty's mother, Lorraine, act like no time has passed, warmly posing with each other alongside a replica of the iconic car. "Being with the car is great— it's more fun being with Lea," says Fox, 49, who will return to TV Nov. 9 in a guest spot on The Good Wife. "I just remember all these things with the car— smashing my head on the door, hitting my knee on the flux capacitor." Adds Thompson, "It's a thrill for me because I didn't actually get to shoot in the car. I kinda saw it in the background. I'm a little bitter! It's great to see Michael. I can't believe it's been 25 years."
The 49-year-old actress, who costars in the upcoming film The Convincer with Greg Kinnear, joined her former big-screen son for an emotional chat about Back to the Future's lasting appeal.
EW: When was the last time you saw each other?
Michael J. Fox: Before the summer, Lea was at a benefit for our foundation [the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research] in L.A. She and Meredith Baxter introduced me, and it was like my two moms. It was great!
EW: Do you find that there's a special place in people's hearts for Back to the Future?
Lea Thompson: Oh, yeah. It's quite remarkable that it still endures.
MJF: It fits, given the theme of the movie, that it's cross-generational. In its own way it's become like The Wizard of Oz or something. It's something that kids love and don't think about when it was made, and don't think of it as an old movie.
LT: Even though we kinda got the future wrong.
MJF: We thought about faxes. We didn't think about the Internet.
EW: Do people recite lines to you, like "Hello, McFly!"?
MJF: I get a lot of that. But what I get is people wanting to talk about the spacetime continuum and I'm just like, "Dude, I was just in the movie. I don't know." There was a big fuss this summer about some date that was apparently on the flux capacitor that we reached. People wanted to have conversations with me about it and I was like, "We can talk about the movie, but I have no idea about the inner geekdom." I mean, God bless them.
EW: If you guys had a time-traveling DeLorean, would you go into the past or the future?
LT: I think I would go forward, but I love my life. I'm pretty happy right now.
MJF: I did a TV movie with Woody Allen, and everyone was talking about where they would go if they went to another period of time, and then it got to him at the end and he just looked at everybody and said, "No time before the invention of penicillin." I borrow that from him.
EW: Do you have a favorite scene from the movie?
MJF: That bedroom scene [where young Lorraine attempts to seduce Marty] was just great.
LT: That's a funny scene.
MJF: You were so great in that. All that stumbling around I did was a direct reaction to all the pressure Lea was putting on me with the eyes and the intensity of what she was doing. It was so fun to work with someone that good.
LT: [Wiping tears from her eyes and rubbing Fox's arm] Aww. I'm getting verklemmt here.
EW: Remakes of '80s movies are all the rage now. What would you think about Hollywood remaking Back to the Future?
LT: They're remaking Red Dawn. I was in Red Dawn. Remaking Back to the Future? Well, they'd have to rethink the future now. I don't know.
MJF: It would be great.... For the record, I don't want any job in it. I just wanna see it.
The Must List – Ten things you must hear, see, and do this week.
News + Notes – Is The Hunger Games the next Twilight? Both are addictively readable young-adult series about a female teen in a complicated love trial. But Games is more thoughtful and much darker. It takes place in a bleak, postapocalyptic world where, every year, 24 children are randomly selected and forced to battle to the death on television. The stories are already taking Hollywood by storm – Lionsgate optioned the series in 2009 and Billy Ray, Gary Ross and Nina Jacobsen have been brought on to write, direct, and produce the first film...With pilot season in full swing, it's clear that Dad-driven comedies are all the rage. Broadcast networks seem anxious to replicate the success of Modern Family with shows in development for fall that all have a Family feel..."Ladies and gentlemen, electric cars are gay." These words, spoken by Vince Vaughn in the trailer for The Dilemma (out Jan. 14), were supposed to be funny, but no one is laughing. It's rare for a studio marketing team to use a that's so gay joke as a selling point. After requests from GLAAD and a comment from Anderson Cooper, Universal Pictures has pulled the scene from the trailer but has given no answer as to whether or not it will remain in the film...Ausiello Files...Hit List...The Shaw Report...Hollywood Insider...Monitor. (Page 17)
Halloween DVD Specials – Wolverine and the X-Men: The Complete Series is only $22.49. The animated Saturday-morning series about Marvel's superteam may not be all that scary, but there are some good costume ideas here. Just duct-tape butter knives onto your hands, pop in disc 1, and you're set to go. Also see Tales From the Darkside: The Complete Series, 28 Days Later/28 Weeks Later/Mirrors, Alien Anthology, and the Cheezy Trailer Extravaganza, which might serve more as fair warning than good advertising.
                    
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