{"id":85021,"date":"2025-08-21T01:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85021\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T01:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:27:07","slug":"kevin-williamson-neve-campbell-agreed-scream-7-will-reset-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85021\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Williamson & Neve Campbell Agreed ‘Scream 7’ Will “Reset” Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs the Scream<\/a> franchise\u2019s original \u2018final girl\u2019 reunites with its original writer, the duo plans to take the slasher films back to their roots.<\/p>\n

\n\tKevin Williamson<\/a>, who launched the franchise in 1996 with the late director Wes Craven<\/a> and returns to direct Scream 7<\/a>, recently explained in Ashley Cullins\u2019 new book, Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror, that he and star Neve Campbell<\/a> decided it was \u201ctime to reset\u201d the franchise back to Craven\u2019s original vision of horror.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNeve wants to go back to the first one and find the suspense and really concentrate on scary and not bloody,\u201d Williamson explained in an excerpt posted by Bloody Disgusting<\/a>. \u201cShe was smart. She goes, \u2018This is the time to do it because we\u2019re moving away from New York. We\u2019re going back to Sidney\u2019s life. This is the time to reset a little bit. And I\u2019m like, \u2018Yup, let\u2019s do it.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe upcoming installment comes after Scream VI<\/a> took the action from Woodsboro to New York City, also serving as the first film in the franchise not to feature Campbell\u2019s Sidney Prescott, following a pay dispute with the actress<\/a>. With Melissa Barrera<\/a> and Jenna Ortega<\/a> not reprising their roles as sister survivors Sam and Tara Carpenter, the focus is back on OG \u2018final girl\u2019 Sidney.<\/p>\n

\n\tWilliamson added, \u201cI have made it very clear, I think publicly too, that Sidney has been through so much torment, and she has been through so much trauma, that to give her anything less than a happy ending is mean. It\u2019s just sacrilegious.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tNeve Campbell in \u2018Scream\u2019 (2022)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEverett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tThe director returns to the franchise after he wrote the first two Craven-helmed films in 1996 and 1997, as well as the 2011 franchise refresh Scream 4.<\/p>\n

\n\tSet to hit theaters on Feb. 27, 2026, Campbell joins returning stars Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Scott Foley, Matthew Lillard, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding, as well as newcomers Joel McHale, Isabel May, Celeste O\u2019Connor, Asa Germann, Mckenna Grace, Sam Rechner, Michelle Randolph, Jimmy Tatro, Anna Camp, Mark Consuelos and Ethan Embry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Scream franchise\u2019s original \u2018final girl\u2019 reunites with its original writer, the duo plans to take the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,50662,337,50663,35927,38053,34154],"class_list":{"0":"post-85021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-kevin-williamson","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-neve-campbell","14":"tag-scream","15":"tag-scream-7","16":"tag-wes-craven"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}