Neve Campbell returns to 'Scream' after leaving franchise over wage

“Hiya, Sidney.”

Authentic “Scream” queen Neve Campbell introduced she is returning to the multi-film franchise after sitting out of the sixth installment over a wage dispute. 

The 50-year-old actor took to Instagram on Tuesday to verify the information with a photograph of the script. 

“Sidney Prescott is coming again!!!!” Campbell wrote. “It is all the time been such a blast and an honor to get to play Sidney within the Scream motion pictures. My appreciation for these movies and for what they’ve meant to me, has by no means waned.”

Campbell has performed the important thing character of Sidney Prescott in every of the franchise’s movies, excluding “Scream VI,” for the reason that first film was launched in 1996. 

“As a lady, I’ve needed to work extraordinarily arduous in my profession to ascertain my worth, particularly relating to ‘Scream,'” she mentioned in a 2022 assertion to Selection on her choice to not be part of the sixth film. “I felt the supply that was introduced to me didn’t equate to the worth I’ve dropped at the franchise.”

It was additionally revealed that the author of the unique “Scream” film, Kevin Williamson, will return to direct the untitled seventh installment.

“I’m overcome with gratitude and pleasure, and I can’t wait to take this journey with Neve and the whole Scream household as we deliver again Sidney Prescott within the subsequent chapter of the Scream franchise,” Williamson wrote on his personal Instagram. “Thanks to all of the Scream followers. You’re the reward that retains giving.”

Along with writing the scripts for the franchise’s debut, sequel and “Scream 4,” Williamson is understood for his work on different slasher movies like “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” in addition to well-liked exhibits like “Dawson’s Creek” and “Vampire Diaries.” 

A launch date for “Scream 7” and the total solid haven’t but been introduced, however there are some faces that will likely be notably lacking from the upcoming movie. Actor Melissa Barrera, who starred alongside Jenna Ortega in lead roles for the fifth and sixth “Scream” motion pictures, was fired by the manufacturing firm following social media posts by which she was vital of Israel and supportive of Palestinians amid the Israel-Hamas warfare. 

A spokesperson for manufacturing firm Spyglass Media Group instructed Selection it has “zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any type, together with false references to genocide, ethnic cleaning, Holocaust distortion or something that flagrantly crosses the road into hate speech.” 

Following her firing, Christopher Landon introduced he, too, was leaving the undertaking that he was initially slated to direct. In a put up on X, he described the gig as a “dream job that was a nightmare.”

Ortega can be not returning for “Scream 7,” although experiences acknowledged it was attributable to a scheduling battle and unrelated to her co-star’s dismissal. 

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