Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro | |
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Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro film poster | |
Directed by | Roman Bridger |
Produced by | John Milton |
Written by | Will Kennison |
Starring | |
Music by | Dante Paltrow |
Distributed by | Sunrise Studios |
Release date(s) | Unreleased |
Running time | |
Language | English |
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Gross revenue | – |
Preceded by | Stab 2 |
Followed by | Stab 3: Hollywood Horror |
- "Stab 3" redirects here. For the in-universe released film, see Stab 3: Hollywood Horror.
Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro is a cancelled fictional film originally set for release in 2000 in the Scream universe. Unlike the previous two installments, this film was not going to be based on true events. Its production can be seen in Scream 3 (2000 film).
The film was cancelled following the deaths of two cast members, Cotton Weary and Sarah Darling.
Later, the movie's director, Roman Bridger, was revealed to be the killer, and also murdered executive producer, John Milton as well as veteran returning Stab actress, Jennifer Jolie. Gale Weathers wrote a book about it: Hollywood Horror, which was adapted into the released version, Stab 3: Hollywood Horror.
Plot[]
Three versions of the script are known to having been written.
The film starts out with Cotton Weary appearing as himself, getting murdered by Ghostface early in the movie. Next, Candy Brooks was brutally murdered before taking a shower, similar to Casey Becker in the first Stab installment. Gale, Sidney and Dewey reunite to find the killer and put an end to this killing spree. In one of the script versions, Gale was murdered next by Ghostface.
Ricky Wafford joins the group, being an homage to Randy Meeks, but dies getting stabbed in the head by a pair of scissors. According to Jennifer Jolie, Gale is the murderer in Stab 3; if that claim is true, it's unknown whether this applies to all of the script versions or only the one she possessed at the time.
Final version[]
Stab 3 was likely rewritten after the events of the third movie, as Jenny Randall mentions the original Stab trilogy to be based directly on Sidney Prescott's life, while the rest were fictional.
Cast[]
The actors listed below were to play their roles during the original filming of Stab 3, directed by Roman Bridger. However, all of them ended up killed and the movie was likely rewritten to fit the events of Scream 3, being shot with a different cast.
- Angelina Tyler as Sidney Prescott
- Tom Prinze as Dewey Riley
- Jennifer Jolie as Gale Weathers
- Tyson Fox as Ricky Wafford
- Sarah Darling as Candy Brooks
- Cotton Weary as himself (cameo)
- Barry Barclay as Computer Geek #1
Crew[]
Executive Producers:
Producers:
Director:
Fred Rifkin(Replaced)- Roman Bridger
Camera:
- Brett Jutkiewicz
Writer:
Technical Advisor:
Behind The Scenes[]
- Casting started November 1999.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- On the fake website, the film's tagline is: "The first one hurt. The second one hurt worse. This one's really gonna hurt!". This is a parody of obnoxious and stupid horror film taglines.
- It's stated how Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro had three scripts in order to prevent leaks as well as to divert attention, due to Ghostface killing the actors portraying characters in the order their characters would in the script.
- This is proven during the second act in Scream 3 as Ghostface traps various characters at Jennifer Jolie's Hollywood home at night following the murder of her bodyguard, Steven Stone, and who faxes them all script changes as it then occurs in real time.
- This is meta commentary about the Scream franchise in itself, particularly Scream 2 and it's original film script being leaked, affecting the filming of the film itself, causing rewrites, reshoots, and delays on its cast and actors in order to maintain secrecy and counter leaks.
- This is proven during the second act in Scream 3 as Ghostface traps various characters at Jennifer Jolie's Hollywood home at night following the murder of her bodyguard, Steven Stone, and who faxes them all script changes as it then occurs in real time.
- Supposedly, the only Stab film to be made a film-within-a film and reintroduced as true events within the Scream universe, due to this film originally being a fictional sequel to Stab 2, before being cancelled due to the Hollywood Murders occuring while in production.
- Only Stab film to not feature Tori Spelling or David Schwimmer returning as their Stab counterparts of Sidney Prescott and Dewey Riley.
- The Stab actress counterparts of Gale Weathers, formerly Jennifer Jolie, who prior to her death revealed to Ghostface at the Milton Estate, when pleading for her life that they can't kill her as she was supposed to be the killer in Stab 3.
- This is referenced in Scream VI by Gale being called by Ghostface (Quinn Bailey) who makes commentary of how out of all the Original Trio supposedly being the killer, how she made the most sense if she were to turn, how her friend Sidney would've never made sense and how ex-husband Dewey was the fan favorite.
- In Scream 3, the only lines from the movie that were known were only Sarah Darling's character, Candy Brooks. One of them are:
- "We are not in any danger."
- Deleted scenes from Scream 3 reveal that Gale dies third and is then unmasked as the killer at the end of the film with Dewey and Sidney surviving whilst Ricky, Cotton and Candy are all killed.
- Roman did also not care about the movie and was using it as a means to get to Sidney.
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