And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.
I don't want to give too much of it away, because I haven't cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty years, and she, in an effort to protect herself faked her death and did a series of things regarding Dr. Loomis, who has died, because Michael Myers was after her.
I just try to write what I want to see. I tried to do that with 'Scream' and with 'Summer.' I just try to tell a compelling story.
I think that our target audience today is just so savvy, so I try to write all of my characters so that they are self- aware.
I tried to fit a little humour into it when I thought it was appropriate, but it just gets uglier and uglier as July 4th approaches.
It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.
It's quite different. Laurie Strode is now a school-teacher, and one of her students gets up and does a report on all of the murders in Haddonfield, so we explain all six films in one scene! It's going to be a fun movie!
'Killing Mrs. Tingle' is not a horror movie; it's a dark-comedy. It's like 'Heathers,' which I loved. It's actually the best representation of who I am as a writer.
'Summer' will be undoubtedly compared to 'Scream,' which is unfortunate, because this is a much more serious film.
That's certainly true in 'Scream' and 'Summer' and in 'Dawson's Creek.' You could dub that show 'Thirty Something,' even though they (the characters) are fifteen. I'm really having fun with that.
That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally.
The setting of the situation is really cool, and it's very interesting. Jamie is dying to do this; she loved the idea. Can't you just imagine?
Then one year later, y'know, the jock's suicidal, the brain is flunking out, and the beauty queen is a prozac popping has-been.
There is sort of a little exposition going on where we explain Haddonfield, and the Haddonfield murders, although it doesn't take place in Haddonfield. It takes place somewhere else.
There's going to be a trailer in the theater like this coming summer, and it is just going to be a black screen, and all you will hear is that music.
They are sort of in way stock figures, and I was hoping to dispel that a little bit, and stir it up differently.
They've all lived through the psycho-babble of the eighties, and have a self- awareness now even if there behavior is not that of an adult, they can sure talk like one.
Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.
What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
His current project writing and producing Hidden Palms, a pilot for The CW in the 2006-2007 season.
He applied to New York University's film school and was accepted, but he was unable to afford the tuition, so he went to East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
He was going to direct The Faculty, but Miramax wanted him to write Scream 2.
He lived in the neighboring coastal community of Oriental, but before he started school his family moved to Aransas Pass, Texas, later relocating to Fulton, Texas.
His favorite movie is Halloween (1978). He's said that the movie is the reason he started writing.
Most of his films involve a character named "Casey", such as Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Halloween H2O (1998) and The Faculty (1998).
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