Scream author Kevin Williamson is hoping Neve Campbell, who performed Sidney Prescott within the accident horror movies, in the end makes a go back to the franchise then she exited extreme hour because of wage disputes.

All through a up to date interview at the Happy Horror Time podcast, the writer-producer-director stated he “totally respect[s] her opinion,” however he hopes one thing can also be discovered for occasion motion pictures.

“I know exactly where she’s coming from, I know her well,” Williamson stated. “I love and adore her and that’s what she did. It’s right for her. I love everyone involved in Scream and all I can say is, pay her the money. That’s what I would do, I would give her the money.”

He persisted, “I’m sure there’s a number they can agree on that will make them both happy, so hopefully one day they will figure that all out.”

Campbell detectable in June 2022 that she would not be returning for the then upcoming sixth sequel over wage negotiations. Despite the fact that she stated it was once a troublesome resolution, she added in a commentary on the occasion, “As a woman, I have had to work extremely hard in my career to establish my value, especially when it comes to Scream. I felt the offer that was presented to me did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise.”

She upcoming stated in an interview with Society novel, “I did not feel that what I was being offered equated to the value that I bring to this franchise, and have brought to this franchise, for 25 years. And as a woman in this business, I think it’s really important for us to be valued and to fight to be valued. I honestly don’t believe that if I were a man and had done five installments of a huge blockbuster franchise over 25 years, that the number that I was offered would be the number that would be offered to a man.”

Williamson wrote the screenplay for the primary 4 Cry movies however James Vanderbilt and Man Busick took over writing the 5th sequel in 2022. Williamson, who nonetheless serves as an govt manufacturer for the franchise, additionally shared at the podcast what he had deliberate for Sidney if he persisted to pen the scripts.

“Scream IV, V, and VI, would have been [about] the love story of Sidney Prescott, and it would’ve been this whole thing of she’s falling in love, she’s going to get married, it’s all based around her marriage when these murders start happening again,” he stated. “It’s like, is this man that she’s in love with the killer again? Is she Billy Loomis-ing herself all over again? Is she still making the wrong decisions? Is she still choosing the bad guy?”

Williamson added that if Campbell does go back and reprises her function as Sidney, he’s “absolutely determined” that her persona will get a contented finishing.

Cry VI, which was once absolved in March, is these days streaming on Paramount Plus, and Cry 7 is these days within the works with Christopher Landon directing.