Kevin Williamson is writing the new SCREAM trilogy while some of us are screaming WHY?! But this isn’t about SCREAM, it’s about what Williamson will be doing in between the fourth and fifth installment. That’s right, the man is already thinking ahead. He’s thinking the remake of the 1987 thriller THE BEDROOM WINDOW starring Steve Guttenberg and Elizabeth McGovern, it was one of director Curtis Hanson’s earliest films…
“The other thing that’s exciting that’s coming up is I’m doing a remake of ‘The Bedroom Window,”
“It’s based on the book ‘The Witnesses,’ and I’m going to balance out the book; I’m going to pull more from the book [than Hanson did]. I’m doing it in between Scream 4 and 5.”
“Basically, a guy is having an affair with his boss’s wife,”
“They’re finishing up after a night of sex, and she goes towards the window to smoke a cigarette, and she sees a murder outside her window. She sees the killer, and they call the police, but she can’t be there because she’s the boss’s wife. So she tells all of her information to [the man she’s sleeping with], and he becomes the witness.”
“But he never saw the guy out the window, he was in the bathroom,”
“And so, he’s suddenly now the sole witness for this guy who’s a serial killer charged with killing all these women all over town. Of course, he gets caught in the lie, and so the serial killer comes after him.”
“It’s a cat-and-mouse kind of movie, very Hitchcock-y,”
“It’s a twist on ‘Rear Window,’
