Appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, Lauren Graham confirmed earlier reports that she will indeed be joining the cast of the upcoming Wes Craven directed Scream 4. Graham, who is widely known for her role of Lorelai Gilmore on The Gilmore Girls will be playing the role of Kate, the mother of Emma Roberts‘ character Jill Kessler.
Graham joins the Scream 4 cast of Courtney Cox, David Arquette, and Neve Campbell from the original trilogy along with newcomers Emma Roberts, Hayden Penettiere, Rory Culkin and Lake Bell.
Scream director Wes Craven recently told EW, “we have fun with the idea of endless sequels, or “sequelitis” as Kevin [Williamson] calls it in the script. Sid goes through these three horrendous things, and Stab was based on those horrible things. And then they’ve been taken by a studio and run into the ground in a series of sequels. She has been off by herself and living her own life, and she’s even written a book that has gotten a lot of critical acclaim. She’s kind of put her life back together in the course of these 10 years. But, certainly, there would be no Scream without Ghostface, so she has to confront him again, but now as a woman who has really come out the darkness of her past.” … “This is a film about the progress of, at this point, three core characters, and how all of these events have changed their lives, and how the events in their lives have been reflected in the movies around them, which they might like or might really not like at all. I think that makes it really different.”
Synopsis: Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott, who has put herself back together thanks in part to her writing, is visited by the Ghostface
Directed by Wes Craven, Scream 4 has a tentative release date of April 15th, 2011.
Are you excited about this cast addition?