In the original film, she is already in her 30s, and notes her age difference with Dewey Riley.
As such, Richie is generally regarded as having an early-90s, late-millennial birth instead. Some divergences are made from script references if considerably older actors are cast, such as Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell for much younger described characters in a script, or Richie Kirsch, who was promoted as being around 25, but the film makes several inferences to him being a millennial in the final cut (like actor, Jack Quaid, who shot the film at age 28). This technically would not violate continuity either, as it is generally assumed, based on script reference and dialogue in a deleted scene, for it to be canon. However, a future film may retroactively decide Jill is younger i.e 15 years old. An extended ending reveals Jill Roberts is 17. Unlike their predecessors and successors, they are not explicitly stated to be seniors in the final cut of the film. Other assumptions made include the ages of the Scream 4 characters.
However, for the purpose of real-world logic, it is generally best to stay consistent. For example, if the characters are seniors in a film set in late-1996, it is generally assumed they are born between September 1978 and August 1979, the California cut-off age of birth for the time period when the film occurred.Ī future film may reinvent this rule, and state Woodsboro High has a unique age-based system that cuts off year-by-year. Other assumptions made are ages fitted to real-world requirement ages, such as the age of a high school graduation senior or the actors matching a relatively similar age range, unless stated or strongly implied otherwise.
In this case, background filming dates are generally ignored, as they often contradict on-screen dialogue (such as Himbry's office showing an out-of-focus calendar of April 1996, Scream 2 stating Stab is released in April 1997, etc). This contradicts the bulletin posts of filming dates indicating the film occurs in the summer (when Sarah Darling goes for a meeting). However, it is also possible, given we know it was a two-year period for Maureen to be a Hollywood actress, Milton is referring to the allegations where "no charges were brought", when she came to confront it as early as 1970.Īdditionally, Roman's four-year track can be an approximate timeframe, if we consider the film occurs on its release date (February 2000), 5 months after the 4 year anniversary of her murder it would be an approximate 4 year and a half period prior, where Roman stalked Maureen (as early as one month prior to her murder). Due to the production of the third film suffering with scripts being written day-by-day during filming, this is one of a few notable continuity errors.īy real-world logic, a pregnancy is 42 weeks, and Maureen would have conceived Roman via rape in 1969. When referring to John Milton's Hollywood parties, he states "it was the 70s, everything was different", making the logical assumption for it to be a minimum of five years ago. The 30th birthday of Roman Bridger potentially conflicts with finding Maureen "four years ago", as it indicates four years have passed since her 1995 murder (when majority of production for the third film occurred, it was the year 1999).
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