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Cast < Drew Barrymore was orginally cast as Sidney Prescott but due to schedule conflicts she offered to play Casey Becker instead < Melissa Joan Heart auditioned for the role of Sidney Prescott < Holly Marie Combs was on the list of possible actresses to play Sidney Prescott < Janeane Garofalo turned down the rold of Gale Weathers < Tatum tells Sidney that if a movie was made about Sidneys life that Meg Ryan should play her. Sidney replies with "My luck they would cast Tori Spelling". Tori Spelling was cast to play Sidney in the fictional Stab movies shown in Scream 2 < The cheerleader in the bathroom scene was played by Skeet Ulrich's then girlfriend < Reese Witherspoon turned down the lead role of Sidney < Mindy Clark turned down the role of Tatum Riley <Rebecca Gayheart auditioned for the role of Tatum Riley, but scheduling conflicts with her film Somebody is Waiting prevented her from lading the role < Charlotte Ayanna was considered for the role of Tatum Riley < Molly Ringwald was considered for the role of Sidney Prescott but turned it down stating that she'd "rather not be playing a high school student at the age of 27" Ad-Libs Stu's line "i always had a thing for ya sid" and Sidney's reply "in your dreams" were ad libbed by Matthew Lillard and Neve Campbell Random Trivia < The special effects artists used about 50 gallons of blood for Scream < The Ghostface mask is based on the "Scream" painting by Edward Munch < When Sidney comes out of the closet and stabs Billy with an umbrella, the stunt man was supposed to hit a pad on Skeet Ulrich's chest but slipped and hit him in a painful part of his chest where he had open heart surgery as a kid. Wes kept it in the movie because of its authenticity < To keep Drew Barrymore looking scared, Wes Craven kept telling her real life stories about animal cruelty knowing how sensitive she was to animals < When the phone slips out of Billy's hand and hits Stu's head it was completely unintentional. Wes Craven kept it in because of Matthew Lillard's reaction < The jiffy pop popcorn in the first scene acts as a clock. It goes from normal to out of control as does the scene < Drew Barrymore and Neve Campbell did not meet Roger L. Jackson, the actor who played "the voice" before shooting commenced. Whenever they are seen speaking to him in the film they were actually talking to him and had not met his beforehand < Rose Mcgowan dyed her hair from black to blonde in order to contrast Neve Campbell's hair < The MPAA wanted to cut out the graphic shot of the killer stabbing Casey Becker in the beginning but director Wes Craven insisted that it was the only take of it that they had filmed (which wasnt true) and so the shot remained < The original title was "Scary Movie". However the title was later changed to "Scream" and "Scary Movie" became the title for a series of popular "Scream" parody films < William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying (1930) features a character named Skeet Mcgowan. Scream features actors Skeet Ulrich and Rose Mcgowan < The killer was based on a Florida serial killer called "The Gainsville Ripper" < Wes Craven found the mask in a store while location scouting in California < The person wearing the ghost face costume was mostly a stunt man, not Skeet Ulrich or Matthew Lillard < When the killer smashes his head through a window and Casey hits him in the face with the phone, Wes Craven was wearing the costume and was actually hit in the face < When producer Bob Weinstein watched parts of the first scenese he said that the Ghostface mask was idiotic and asked producers to film one scene with seven different masks and let him choose the one he liked best. Producers didn't agree and threatened to shut down production. They told him to wait until Drew Barrymore's opening sequence was completed to decide. After watching it he agreed that the mask worked and was not allowed to make one more complaint during filming < The idea of the pet door in the garage came from Williamson's assistant. Originally Tatum's death scene was to be a fist fight with the killer and having the door come down of her neck <The death of Principal Himbry was added to the film after Bob Weinstein noticed that there was about 30 pages in the script where nobody died and told Kevin Williamson that "somebody must die." Subsequently the addition of that scene gave Williamson a good reason to have all the party guests leave the party near the climax < All the killer's phone calls were really done by Roger L. Jackson on the set with a cell phone. At one point the crew were contacted by the police demanding to know who they were because they thought there was a real killer making the phone calls < Rose Mcgowan discovered that she could actually fit through the pet flap in the garage |