"A couple of weeks went by, and we still couldn't come up with anything everyone could agree on, and we were getting very close to shooting – it was getting very tense. So I said, ‘why don't we call that lady and see if she's thrown away the mask or still has it and at least see it again?' I thought, who knows, maybe she cleaned the house and threw it away! Bruce Miller sent the location manager over there, and sure enough, he came back with it and I got Wes to take another look at it, and he said, ‘let's go with it,' and we finally made a decision! Of course, we had to call and get the rights from Fun World. It was a mass-produced Halloween mask, and the rights cost some money. Cary Granant negotiated the deal with Fun World, and we got the rights. Even at this point Wes still really wanted to make his own version so he said ‘okay I like it, but I want to change the shape just a bit', so we did and KNB did make their own sculpture of it with a few alterations. We started shooting the opening sequence with it and realized very quickly that the original mask was perfect so then we went back to the original mask."
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I, of course, have to ask you to tell the story of how the mask used for Ghostface in Scream was found and ultimately used in the film
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Marianne Maddalena
Marianne Maddalena (born July 7, 1962) is an American film producer, who was Wes Craven's producing partner for many years.
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