Stabbed In The Back

Stabbed In The Back: The Real Sunrise Story, is a fictitious, hard hitting investigative journalistic look into the dark, gritty, underbelly that is Sunrise Studios. Although technically written "anonymously," the website that gives a sneak peak at the book, SunriseSucks.com heavily implies that the book is written by Gale Weathers.

Deductively it is assumed that Gale Weathers wrote the book because it directly mentions her website, "galeweathers.com" and that's "where I will reveal more secrets very soon." Also in chapter seven, it is mentions that John Milton, the head producer for the Stab franchise, "owes Gale Weather [a] significant, [amount of] outstanding cash for the rights to her two books." Which if it was written by her would explain the bad pun about Stab.

Plot[]

Stabbed in the Back, the true Sunrise Story, is a dark, gritty, look at the dirty and dangerous side of Hollywood's biggest movie studio. From its humble beginings the two Dons, working on their very film first together It Walked From The Waves, to the string of odd disappearences of some of the studio, newest faces. darkest conspiracies that have ever taken over Hollywood, like how Sunrise Studios reacted when one of their movies was the scene for a gruesome murder. How the studio reacted when one of the murder victims was the son of Sunrise Studio employee, Martin Stevens. Sunrise has, and always will be, the leaders in sketchy opportunities around Hollywood.

Connection to the Films[]

The book was mentioned on the promotional website SunriseSucks made as part of the Scream 3 promotion. The site, and book, author remained anonymous however it was heavily implied that Gale Weathers wrote the book. A fanmade cover was designed for the book and it was made canon in Scream VI when it was seen in the Ghostface Shrine. Despite being anonymous, it's likely that following the events of Scream 3, Gale came forward as the author and the book was re-published under her name.

Other books[]

The order of Gale's published books, as seen on her desk in Scream 4 or in the shrine in Scream VI. In overall chronological order:

Wrongly Accused (Mentioned in Scream; Never seen until Scream VI in the Ghostface Shrine.
The Woodsboro Murders (Gale's first book on Ghostface based on the 1996 Woodsboro Murders. Seen in Scream 2, Scream 3, Scream 4 and Scream VI.
College Terror (Mentioned in Scream 3; Easter egg on Gale's desk and in Jill's room in Scream 4; Seen in the shrine in Scream VI; 1998 book; adapted into Stab 2 released in 1999)
Stabbed In The Back (Seen in Scream VI; Gale's book detailing the shady past of Sunrise Studios)
Hollywood Horror (Easter egg on Gale's desk in Scream 4; Seen in the shrine in Scream VI; 2000 book; adapted into Stab 3: Hollywood Horror released in 2006)
Knife of Doom (Seen in Scream 4; Seen in the shrine in Scream VI; adapted into Stab 4 released in 2007)
Clock of Doom (Seen in Scream 4; Seen in the shrine in Scream VI; adapted into Stab 5 released in 2008)
Ghostface Returns (Fiction; Easter egg on Gale's desk and in Jill's room; Seen in the shrine in Scream VI; released 2000s decade; adapted into Stab 6 released in 2009)
Knife of the Hunter (Fiction; adapted into Stab 7 released in 2010; Easter egg on Gale's desk; Seen in the shrine in Scream VI).
Requel: Terror Returns To Woodsboro (Non-fiction; Gale's latest book based upon the 2022 Woodsboro Murders).

Trivia[]

Despite being mentioned in Scream 3 promotion, the book wasn't properly acknowledged until Scream VI. The graphic designer of the film wanted to acknowledge the fans in his re-creation of graphics from previous films and chose to replicate the fanmade cover for the book.
According to GaleWeathers.com, Gale was set to interview the anonymous author for Total Entertainment.
A screen-accurate replica of the books' cover was able to be purchased here, but has become unavailable since an unknown date.