Tim Robinson's Cameo, The Lost Props, And 22 More Behind-The-Scenes Facts About "Scream VI"

2. The Ghostfaces didn't know they were going to be Ghostfaces right off the bat.

It was a surprise for Jack Champion and Liana Liberato, who play Ethan and Quinn, respectively, according to Gillet's fellow Radio Silence member and Scream VI producer Chad Villella.

"One of the best parts of all of that was they didn't get the third act of the script at all," he said in the same Collider interview, "so they’re in their costume fittings and they tried on their costumes, and then we came in and [were] like, 'There’s one more thing you have to try on,' and then we brought out the Ghostface robe and a mask so they could try it on for the first time. That's how they found out."

Meanwhile, Dermot Mulroney, who plays Detective Bailey, said in an interview with The Independent, "I was told by my agent, 'Good news, we have a call from Scream VI, they want you, they can't tell you anything else, but they need to let you know that you are the bad guy.' It wasn't called 'Ghostface' there; it was just 'the bad guy.'" 

He said he went on to receive the script piece-by-piece and didn't know for sure he was Ghostface until he got to the end.

4. Even years ago, Kevin Williamson's original plan for Scream 6 was going to focus more on Gale than Sidney.

Following the release of 2022's Scream, Williamson revealed that Scream 4 was supposed to be the start of a new trilogy. He told Bloody Disgusting that in his original vision for a fifth movie, Jill would have gone to college (where Sidney was a professor) and faced off with a killer who knew she'd been the killer in the previous film.

"Scream 6 was gonna answer whatever happened between Dewey and Gale," Williamson continued. "Sidney was in it, but it was more focused on Gale’s storyline."

Due to Scream 4's relatively poor box office performance — it was the first film in the series to bring in less than $100M globally, despite having one of the highest. budgets — Williamson's vision for a fifth film never came to fruition.

8. Radio Silence begged Paramount to leave out a certain moment from the trailers.

For the first time in the franchise, we see two Ghostfaces in costume onscreen together. Right after they attack Chad, they turn to face Sam and Tara and do the signature Ghostface move of wiping the blood from their knife blades — in sync.

Apparently Paramount wanted to include the moment in the trailer, which is understandable because it's cool as hell, but Radio Silence asked them not to. They told ReelBlend:

"That's one of my favorite parts of the movie too, you know? And we did ask them to take it out of the trailer, because we wanted to save it for the theater. Which was really nice. We knew that was going to be the first thing marketing would want to use. And then they did. And we were like, 'Can you please just take it out of the trailer? Let's save it, make it special.'"