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Scream 3: The Assembly Cut

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Scream 3: The Assembly Cut is an unofficial cut of the 2000 horror film Scream 3 directed by Wes Craven and written by Ehren Kruger. It was released online in August 2023 after being obtained by Twitter user ViewerAnon and released for public consumption by Scream-Thrillogy.com.

The Assembly Cut was an early rough draft of the movie from October 1999 before reshoots were done and features over 20 minutes of footage deleted from the theatrical cut of the film, as well as an alternative opening and ending. Existence of certain scenes were speculated on until confirmed in the Assembly Cut.

Being a rough cut of the film, temporary music for certain scenes were used as well as unfinalised audio of Ghostface dialogue and dialogue from the voice changer. There were no casting changes between the Assembly Cut and Theatrical Cut other than the original opening sequence not featuring Kelly Rutherford as Christine Hamilton.

Plot

Synopsis

As bodies begin dropping around the set of Stab 3, a movie sequel based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again drawn into a game of horror movie mayhem.

Summary

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Cast & Characters

Main Characters

  • Courteney Cox Arquette as Gale Weathers: The 36-year-old reporter for Total Entertainment following a failed stint on Sixty Minutes II. She is recruited by Mark Kincaid to assist with the investigation of Cotton Weary's murder. She soon reunites with Dewey and Sidney; the trio investigate the new murders together. This includes a connection between Maureen Prescott and John Milton which leads to the killer's identity. At the end of the film, she gets engaged to Dewey.

Supporting Characters

  • Patrick Dempsey as Detective Mark Kincaid: A detective around age 30 with the LAPD who, along with his partner J. Wallace, is assigned to investigate the murder of Cotton Weary. He enlists the help of Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers to solve the new murders and develops romantic interest in Sidney.
  • Scott Foley as Roman Bridger/Ghostface #5: The 29-year-old director of Stab 3 who is unhappy with the position of his life as he is about to turn 30. It is revealed that he is the new Ghostface killer and the half-brother of Sidney Prescott as a result of Maureen Prescott's gang rape at one of John Milton's Hollywood parties when she was an actress at his studio.
  • Parker Posey as Jennifer Jolie (stage name)/Judy Jurgenstern: The actress who portrayed Gale in Stab and Stab 2, now returning for the fictional film entry, Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro. She views technical advisor, Dewey Riley as a secondary bodyguard to her, and in the role of Gale, is hinted to show romantic feelings for him, but is aware of his love for the real Gale.
  • Emily Mortimer as Angelina Tyler: An actress cast as Sidney in Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro after Tori Spelling quit the role. After falsifying an ingénue persona, she "reveals"/claims to have slept with John Milton to get the role in the climax.
    • However, her deception may go further; Wes Craven shot the majority of the film with the intention of Angelina being the second killer (and attack scenes confirm the impossibility of a sole killer). The DVD trilogy boxset and collections omit Angelina, despite her attack (which may have been staged), as one of the deceased.

Minor Characters

  • Liev Schreiber as Cotton Weary: A former Woodsboro Resident who now hosts his own talk show after gathering fame after the Windsor College murders. He is taunted by Ghostface who demands to know where Sidney is and he is ultimately killed when he doesn't confess.
  • Patrick Warburton as Steven Stone: Jennifer Jolie's bodyguard who is hired after the murders start on the set of Stab 3. He is caught off guard by Ghostface and killed before Jennifer's house is blown up.

Cameos

Differences between Theatrical Cut and Assembly Cut

  • Christine is an off-screen victim, and Cotton is killed assuming the voice modulator is her. Her name is shouted out as a more deliberate homage to the 1983 horror film.
  • The film opens on Gale's press conference after the title credits, not Sidney walking Cherokee to her security-wired home in seclusion.
  • The UCLA seminar is longer. The moderator still announces a time cut when Gale is unable to answer a student journalist's question "Was it worth it?". However, in this version, there is a delay where Gale is more evidently unable to respond. This leads the moderator to say they are out of time. After this, Kincaid's introduction is a red herring for Dewey to reappear. Dewey's Theme plays, giving the audience the expectation he will appear. But it abruptly cuts off when Mark's face pops out of a display stand, where further dialog is given to Mark about Gale's resume.
  • After Wallace says, "He was making a movie called Stab, he was stabbed", Mark asks Milton and the producers, "You're gonna hire more security for the studio?" then says "Good" and walks off.
  • Tyson has an extended reaction to Sarah Darling's comment "We are not in any danger", and "I don't see you leaving".
  • Dewey's role as a technical advisor is mocked several times more. Gale remarks "Stab 3 needs a technical advisor the way Baywatch needs a marine biologist" and she comments on his role as technical advisor while they meet for lunch again.
  • Sarah Darling's murder and the prelude featuring a security check is extended.
  • The dialog where Sidney's whereabouts are discovered is different. Ghostface speaks about how far the Terminator went to reach Sarah Connor.
  • Tyson is briefly shown as having been questioned for his absence at the wrap party at Jennifer's which led to Tom Prinze's death.
  • Martha explains how she got on the set and has more dialog speaking to Randy on the TV. She names Alien and The Thing as scary movies where everyone got killed at once. Randy on the TV says "Those are monster movies".
  • Randy manages to correctly predict Mickey Altieri as the killer, citing a paper Mickey wrote where he laid out a case for Superman 2 being better than Superman 1.
  • Dewey and Gale's break-up is addressed more often. They repeat "It's like we never break up" after two scenes where sexual innuendos are remarked upon. When Sidney hugs Gale, she tells Gale she hopes she isn't going to break Dewey's heart again.
  • More scenes of Dewey interacting with Gale, including some of a romantic nature.

Trivia

  • In 2022, screencaps of a deleted scene from Scream 3 surfaced showing Ghostface programming his Voice Changer in a lair.
  • In August 2023, the screencaps resurfaced when Twitter user ViewerAnon shared that he had obtained an assembly cut of the film from its early editing days in October 1999.
  • A few days later, the cut was released onto the site Scream-Thrillogy.com for public consumption, leading to Scream 3 trending on Twitter.
  • The runtime is 141 minutes and features 20+ minutes of new content.
  • At this time, this version is only published in black and white. It is not known exactly whether the source material is colorless, or whether this was done for copy protection.

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