According to a Miramax source, Natasha Wagner (Lost Highway), Eric Mabius (Welcome to the Dollhouse) and Paula Marshall (Chicago Sons) were among the stars who tried to join the cast of Scream 2 but didn't make the cut.
Kevin Williamson's Scream 2 script had been top-secret. "We got our scripts. They were burgundy with a black line through them," Neve Campbell explains. "You can't even read them really. So you can't photocopy them."
Since the Scream 2 script was kept confidential, the cast and crew were kept in the dark about the killer's identity. "The whole time we were shooting, we had no idea who the killer was," Jerry O'Connell says. The actors even cast bets, and after the final days of shooting, it turned out David Arquette had won the wager!
The film's title was almost as much of a mystery as its plot. "At times we've called it Scream Louder and Scream Again," says director Wes Craven. "But it's been going so fast, we haven't had a chance to name it." The most common title the sequel to Scream had been refered to was Scream: The Sequel.
When Kevin Williamson's early rough draft of Scream 2 hit the Internet, secrecy on the set was heightened. "They went almost immediately on the Internet," says Wes Craven. "So all that was blown and we had to go into rewrites." Williamson did so and changed some things, especially the ending.