{"id":234251,"date":"2025-10-30T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234251\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:01:09","slug":"neve-campbell-returns-as-sidney-prescott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234251\/","title":{"rendered":"Neve Campbell Returns As Sidney Prescott"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get those Edvard Munch masks on, people \u2013 Scream<\/a> is back. It\u2019s been a couple of years since Scream VI<\/a> arrived, and much has happened in the intervening time, leading to this particular iteration of Scream 7. Rather than continuing the story of Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega\u2019s sisters, Sam and Tara, from the previous two films, this new entry picks back up with OG Scream icon Sidney Prescott<\/a> \u2013 played, once again, by Neve Campbell \u2013 as she and her daughter Tatum (Isabel May) are menaced by another Ghostface killer. In the director\u2019s chair this time is Kevin Williamson \u2013 the legendary screenwriter of the original Scream (plus 2<\/a> and 4<\/a>), in his first film as director since 1999\u2019s Teaching Mrs. Tingle. Watch the trailer here:<\/p>\n

The headline news here seems to be: this is a personal Scream story for Sidney, closely tied to Campbell\u2019s character, with high stakes for her family. And there are plenty of tense-looking sequences of Prescott and her daughter evading this Ghostface, who, notably, says they\u2019re \u201cnot hiding\u201d this time. Could we find out early in the film who this Ghostface killer is, rather than in the final reel? Or do they simply have a different plan of attack? In the trailer, we see the return, too, of Courteney Cox\u2019s Gale Weathers, and two of the \u2018core four\u2019 from Scream 5<\/a> and 6 in Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown\u2019s Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is, however, notable that the two appear without Sam and Tara, the other \u2018core four\u2019 members. Notably, Freaky\u2019s Christopher Landon was due to direct Scream 7<\/a> as a more direct continuation of Scream VI, with Barrera and Ortega in the cast; the circumstances around Barrera\u2019s removal from the project<\/a> in November 2023 (following social posts regarding the conflict in Gaza) proved controversial, causing a social media storm. Shortly after Barrera\u2019s exit, Ortega also left<\/a> the project, and Landon stepped down<\/a> as director. Campbell\u2019s return as Sidney here comes after she declined to star in Scream VI, having not received an offer she felt was right considering her stature in the franchise. It remains to be seen whether Sam or Tara will be referenced at all in the latest film; Barrera reunited with her Scream directors for vampire film Abigail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As well as Williamson\u2019s return to the franchise, Scream 7 is set to bring back David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, and Scott Foley too \u2013 though, since all three died in previous instalments, it remains to be seen how each will make their comeback. The script comes from Guy Busick, who co-wrote Scream and Scream VI.<\/p>\n

Fans can find out how Scream 7 fares \u2013 and how it connects to the prior entries \u2013 when it hits cinemas on 27 February 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get those Edvard Munch masks on, people \u2013 Scream is back. It\u2019s been a couple of years since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-234251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}