Your Favorite Scary Movie Just Got Neve Campbell Back

After skipping Scream VI because its producers wouldn’t offer her what she felt was a fair salary, Neve Campbell announced on Instagram Tuesday that she will return to the Ghostface franchise for the series’ seventh installment to reprise her role of Sidney Prescott. Additionally, the picture will find Kevin Williamson, who wrote Screams 1, 2 and 4, sitting in the director’s chair.

“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!!!” she wrote. “Well, actually I could. While I’ve been so incredibly lucky to make these films with both the master of horror Wes Craven and the wonderfully talented Matt [Bettinelli-Olpin] and Tyler [Gillett] team, I’ve dreamt for many years of how amazing it would be to make one of these movies with Kevin Williamson at the helm. And now it’s happening, Kevin Williamson is going to direct Scream 7! This was his baby and it’s his brilliant mind that dreamt up this world.”

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“It’s been nearly 30 years since my very first script, Scream, was directed by the legendary Wes Craven,” Williamson wrote in his own Instagram post. “I never would have predicted what it would become. Or that I would be directing the seventh installment of the franchise. I am overcome with gratitude and excitement, and I can’t wait to take this journey with Neve and the entire Scream family as we bring back Sidney Prescott in the next chapter of the Scream franchise.”

James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick, who also wrote Screams 5 and 6, wrote the seventh installment’s script.

The news follows negative press surrounding the production, as actress Melissa Barrera said she’d been fired after voicing her opinions about the Israel-Hamas war and Jenna Ortega, who’d appeared in Scream (2022) and Scream VI, announced she wouldn’t be returning over scheduling conflicts with Wednesday. And last December, filmmaker Christopher Landon, who had been set to direct the movie, announced he was leaving the project. “It was a dream job that turned into a nightmare,” he commented at the time.

Neither Campbell nor Williamson announced when the film would go into production. Also, Courteney Cox has yet to confirm whether she’ll return to the franchise.

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