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Exercise is heating up on the Scream entrance, as Courteney Cox is now in talks to return as reporter Gale Weathers, reprising the function she’s held because the first installment, sources confirmed to Deadline.
Franchise rights holder and producer Spyglass declined remark. The information comes following phrase that unique solid member Neve Campbell shall be again as closing woman Sidney Prescott within the new, at the moment untitled movie, having beforehand exited Scream VI amid a pay dispute.
Scream creator and scribe Kevin Williamson is on board to direct, following Christopher Landon’s exit late final 12 months, in his first outing behind the digital camera for the franchise. Man Busick, who co-wrote 2022’s Scream reboot and Scream VI, is again to pen the script — assuming the reins from his co-writer James Vanderbilt, who’s at work directing the starry historic drama Nuremberg. Vanderbilt nonetheless continues to supply Scream 7 alongside Mission X Leisure companions William Sherak and Paul Neinstein, with Radio Silence govt producing.
Campbell broke the information of her Scream return on March 12, writing on Instagram, “Sidney Prescott is coming again!!!! It’s all the time been such a blast and an honor to get to play Sidney within the ‘Scream’ films. My appreciation for these movies and for what they’ve meant to me, has by no means waned. I’m very completely satisfied and proud to say I’ve been requested, in essentially the most respectful means, to deliver Sidney again to the display and I couldn”t be extra thrilled.”
“It’s been almost 30 years since my very first script, Scream, was directed by the legendary Wes Craven,” wrote Williamson on Instagram. “I by no means would have predicted what it could change into. Or that I’d be directing the seventh installment of the franchise.”
Plans for the seventh Scream shifted dramatically when Spyglass fired star Melissa Barrera over posts relating to the Israel-Hamas Conflict, which the corporate noticed as antisemitic. Additionally out, after starring within the final two movies, is Jenna Ortega, who departed because of scheduling conflicts.
Hitting theaters in March 2023, the latest Scream installment took in over $168M worldwide, breaking the file for the very best home field workplace gross within the franchise, at $108.1 million. A launch date for Scream 7 hasn’t but been introduced.
Selection was first to report on Cox’s discussions for the brand new installment.