Neve Campbell has announced that she will be returning for Scream 7 after having left the horror-slasher franchise in June 2022 over a pay dispute with the studio.
The 50-year-old actress, who starred as the film series’ recurring protagonist, Sidney Prescott, across the first five films, shared the news in an Instagram post on Tuesday (12 March).
“Sidney Prescott is coming back!!!!” Campbell wrote, alongside a picture of the movie script’s cover. “It’s always been such a blast and an honour to get to play Sidney in the Scream movies. My appreciation for these films and for what they have meant to me, has never waned. I’m very happy and proud to say I’ve been asked, in the most respectful way, to bring Sidney back to the screen and I couldn’t be more thrilled.”
Nearly a year before Scream 6 was released, Campbell dropped out of the film, explaining that the studio’s offer “did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise”. “As a woman I have had to work extremely hard in my career to establish my value, especially when it comes to Scream,” she said in a statement.
Campbell has also revealed that screenwriter and director Kevin Williamson, who wrote the original Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997) and Scream 4 (2011) and executive produced the 2022 Scream reboot and its 2023 sequel, will take over as director of the seventh film.
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