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UPDATE; Randy Making a Return in ‘Scream 4’? What About Craven?

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Update: Wes Craven’s assistant tells Bloody-Disgusting that she’s 99.9% sure that Wes Craven has yet to be approached for the project, contrary to reports. We’ll have official word by days end. We’re working on confirming this as we speak, but until then, iFMagazine caught up with Jamie Kennedy at the TCA’s CBS afterparty to promote his new role on CBS’s THE GHOST WHISPERER where he reported some very, very interesting news regarding Dimension Films’ Scream 4, which has become the center of the horrorverse over the past week since its surprising announcement. Read on for the story.
Despite having having been killed off in the franchise, it seems as if Kennedy could still be involved once again as Randy.

“I actually had a conversation with somebody very big in the organization, and there’s a way,” he tells iF. “I don’t know what’s going to happen, but they have plans for a lot of things. You can see new faces that you wouldn’t expect and you can see old faces that you wouldn’t believe. There’s a way to bring a lot of things around.”

When asked if director Wes Craven would be involved, Kennedy confirmed that it’s “the only way they’re going to do it.”

Kennedy’s enthusiasm for the film seems to contradict the story reported by Moviehole this weekend, which claims that Neve Campbell is holding up the project. Watch for further developments soon.

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That Weird Ian Holm CGI in ‘Alien: Romulus’ Has Been Changed for Home Video Release

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The most controversial aspect of Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus last year was the use of late actor/original Alien star Ian Holm’s likeness in the film, with the digitally resurrected Holm playing an android named Rook, the same model as his character Ash from Ridley Scott’s original classic. The effects work for the uncanny cameo, well, it left much to be desired.

Turns out, even Fede Alvarez wasn’t happy with how the digital necromancy in Alien: Romulus turned out. As he explains to Empire, the effects were retooled for the home video release.

“We just ran out of time in post-production to get it right,” Alvarez tells Empire. “I wasn’t 100 per cent happy with some of the shots, where you could feel a bit more the CG intervention. So, for people that react negatively, I don’t blame them.”

“We fixed it,” he continues. “We made it better for the release right now. I convinced the studio we need to spend the money and make sure we give the companies that were involved in making it the proper time to finish it and do it right. It’s so much better.”

With approval from Ian Holm’s estate, the actor was brought back to the screen through a combination of animatronics and digital effects, with the digital effects ultimately being overused atop the animatronic puppet that had been built. As Alvarez explains to Empire, “What we did [for the new home entertainment release] was revert a lot more to the puppet.”

That animatronic was created by Shane Mahan, who used a life cast of Ian Holm from The Lord of the Rings back in 1999. “From that head cast,” Fede Alvarez explains in a featurette you can watch below, “we started building the animatronic, to make sure the likeness was uncanny.”

CGI was then used particularly for the eyes and mouth of the animatronic, the team augmenting the practical effects with digital effects. Now that the home video release of the movie reverts back more to the original practical effects, Alvarez says it looks “way better.”

Decide for yourself. Alien: Romulus is now available on Digital and physical media.

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