Nico Tortorella Joins the Cast of SCREAM 4 and More Character Details
According to actor Nico Tortorella's Twitter he is the latest person to be cast in Wes Craven's upcoming horror film Scream 4. Here is what he said,
Huge news today!!!! Just officially got cast in Scream 4!!!! Today is always the best day of my life.
He seems pretty excited, so congratulations! Tortorella has previously appeared on TV series The Beautiful Life: TBL and Make It or Break It. He is also in Joel Schumacker's upcoming film Twelve, which looks awful.
He doesn't say who he will end up playing in the film, but according to his excitement, it must be a pretty decent sized role. A casting call recently leaked out for the film which reveals some details on who the new characters are in the movie. After reading through them it seems like Tortorella best fits a character name Trevor Sheldon who is described as a handsome high school jock who is "quiet and intense, as though a secret hangs over his head."
Now on to the rest of the character details.
Emma Roberts will play Jill Kessler a cousin to Neve Campbell’s character in the series. She is “one of the film’s primary heroines." Described as “pretty in an ingenue way. Smart, strong. A little goofy, but she makes it sexy. Full of contradictions, but instantly likeable. Not a mean bone in her body. They’re not close, but Jill is Sidney’s cousin.”
Hayden Panettiere will play Jill’s best friend, Kirby Reed the a nerdy film geek. Described as “Cute and quirky, was a tomboy until a year ago, now she’s alternative, cool and sexy. Jill’s best friend. She’s a pop culture and horror aficionado;”
Rory Culkin will play Charlie Walker, a love interest for Jill. Descripted as, “Messy cute. Friends with Jill, Trevor, Kirby, and Olivia. A little cocky, he likens himself to ‘Randy’ from Scream 1 without the nerd part. No such luck, he’s definitely a nerd. May or may not have a crush on Jill. He’d never admit it if he does;”
Lake Bell will play Duputy Judy Hicks, a police officer who knew Sidney from high school. Described as: “A police officer, decidedly sexy but a bit off, she knew Sidney from high school. Didn’t make a big enough impression for Sidney to remember her. Likes her boss, Dewey, perhaps a little too much. NAME CAMEOS PREFERRED;”
OLIVIA MORRIS (17-18; any ethnicity) Sexy and hot. A fun girl who knows how to be bitchy without being a bitch. She finds a way to make every situation about her, but somehow does it in a charming way. Part of the Jill, Kirby, Charlie, Trevor friend group;
DETECTIVE HOSS (MALE 30s-40s; any ethnicity) New school cop. College graduate raised on the CSI TV series. NAME CAMEOS PREFERRED;
DETECTIVE PERKINS (MALE 30s-40s; any ethnicity) Old school cop. Cocky, bigoted, and snarky. NAME CAMEOS PREFERRED;
PATTY (17-18; any ethnicity) A bouncy teenage girl with a fountainhead of pop culture that is impressive. Like all teenagers who live in Woodsboro, she is obsessed with the Woodsboro murders and with the STAB films;
MARNIE (17-18; any ethnicity) Friend of Patty’s. Funny and mischievous; loves practical jokes. Sometimes pushes too far. Bored with Woodsboro’s obsessions with murders that happened when she and her friends were toddlers;
BETTE (20s; any ethnicity) Sidney’s personal assistant. Type A who gets the job done. Secretly yearns for Sidney’s fame and fortune;
REBECCA (17-18; any ethnicity) Cute, vain, over-achieving student at Woodsboro High School. Editor in Chief of the high school newspaper. She’s a future Gale Weathers.
As we've reported before Scream 4 is the first part of a new Scream trilogy, written by Kevin Williamson, the brains behind the original trilogy. The new film takes place in Woodsboro ten years after the events in Scream 3.
Neve Campbell
, Courtney Cox
and
David Arquette
will all reprise their respective roles in the fourth film. In a previous interview with Craven he told EW,
We have fun with the idea of endless sequels, or “sequelitis” as Kevin 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.
I'm excited to see how this next Scream trilogy plays out. I just hope it's as fun, clever, and smart as the first three. What do you all think?