Though the Scream movies are something however missing in character deaths, the author of the slasher franchise’s second installment says there’s one character that he really regrets killing off.
In a current interview with Entertainment Weekly, Scream 2 author Kevin Williamson shared that horror fanatic Randy Meeks (performed by Last Call‘s Jamie Kennedy) would have lived previous the second film if the screenwriter knew the franchise “was going to dwell and dwell.”
Williamson, who hasn’t written any Scream scripts because the 1997 sequel to Wes Craven’s unique killer traditional, stated that Randy was an unlucky casualty of necessity.
“I believed in case you kill somebody actually vital to the viewers within the center, it simply ups the stakes. Everything’s off the desk. I knew we weren’t going to kill Sidney [Neve Campbell], I knew we weren’t going to kill Gale [Courtney Cox] or Dewey [David Arquette]. Those three characters, for Scream 2 had been protected, and so I needed to look to the secondary characters,” he stated.
With Campbell, Cox, and Arquette’s character’s protected—at the least in the intervening time—Williamson wanted a beloved character’s loss of life to additional enrage the viewers in opposition to masked killer Ghostface. Kennedy’s Randy was regretfully, probably the most handy choice.
“I like Randy, I’d have given him a a lot larger life had I identified this franchise was going to dwell and dwell. I’d have beloved for him to be a legacy character. At the time, I believed it will simply be the punch within the intestine the viewers wanted at the moment, to actually get mad, and get mad on the killer,” the screenwriter stated.
Jamie Kennedy Says He Doesn’t Regret the Scream Franchise One Bit
While Randy met a grisly finish in Scream 2, and plans for the actor to make a shock re-appearance in future sequels fell by way of, Kennedy has no regrets about his time within the horror franchise.
In 2021, the actor recalled working with director Wes Craven and co-star Courtney Cox, telling The Hollywood Reporter:
“Wes stated to me, ‘When you make a horror film, the expertise does not need to be horrific.’ It’s one of many best quotes I ever heard. We made this loopy film, however we drank wine at night time and had these civilized dinners,” Kennedy stated.
As filming neared an finish and the actor started to face the finality of his character’s loss of life, issues received emotional—however Gale actress Cox had some additional phrases of knowledge.
“Toward the top of the shoot, I used to be getting actually unhappy that the film was ending and I began to cry. Courtney was like, ‘Oh, honey. Don’t cry. This is the way in which it’s. It’s summer time camp.’ I’m like, ‘But that is my life.’ She goes, ‘No, honey. It’s solely your life for 3 months, however all of us have a bond that we’ll always remember.'”
Randy Meeks might need been brutally killed, however the Scream legacy lives on—the sixth installment, Scream 6, hacks its method into theaters in 2023.