Courteney Cox Returning For Scream 7, Alongside Neve Campbell

Do not depend Gale Weathers out simply but. Sources near Variety have reported that Courteney Cox is in talks to reprise the function of reporter and writer Gale Weathers within the seventh installment of the decades-spanning Scream collection. After we final noticed Gale she was being taken to the hospital after a Ghostface assault in Scream 6.

Cox’s return follows the announcement that fellow Scream alumni Neve Campbell revealed she was additionally coming back as Sidney Prescott. The actor sat out of the earlier movie due to a salary dispute.

Campbell confirmed the information herself on her Instagram earlier within the month. «It is all the time been such a blast and an honor to get to play Sidney within the ‘Scream’ motion pictures. My appreciation for these movies and for what they’ve meant to me, has by no means waned,» she posted. «I am very blissful and proud to say I have been requested, in essentially the most respectful method, to carry Sidney again to the display and I could not be extra thrilled.»

Scream 7’s manufacturing was within the information final yr with each Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera exiting the franchise after being the main focus of the final two movies. Then there was Christopher Landon additionally leaving only a few months after he had signed on over the summer time.

«I suppose now’s nearly as good a time as any to announce I formally exited Scream 7 weeks in the past,» he mentioned in a statement. «It was a dream job that become a nightmare. And my coronary heart did break for everybody concerned. Everybody. However it is time to transfer on.»

As confirmed by Campbell in her put up, Landon was then changed by unique Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson. The earlier two motion pictures within the franchise, distributed by Paramount, grossed $137.7 million and $168.9 million worldwide, respectively.

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