In the published screenplay for "Scream", an alternate ending had Randy (rather than Sidney) kill Billy before asking Sidney out on a date. Before a script leak forced the rewriting of parts of the "Scream 2" screenplay, Randy was to be Gale Weathers' cameraman rather than a student as shown in the finished film. His death, however, remained the same. Craven and Ehren Kruger considered bringing Randy back in "Scream 3", revealing him to have survived his attack in "Scream 2" but abandoned the idea as too unrealistic.